Membership Agreement Grandfather

Work Life Community Terms & Conditions This Online Membership Agreement, hereinafter referred to as “Agreement,” is entered into and made effective as of the purchase date and between the following parties: The Chalmers Center for Economic Development (“Organization”), a business, organized under the laws of the state of Georgia, having its principal place of business…

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Online Learning Support

General Questions I have slow or no internet. Can I download the videos? Unfortunately, due to copyright issues, we cannot allow download of our videos at this point. It is possible to change the quality of the video to use less bandwidth which can help with buffering issues. To do this, click on the gear…

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Helping Without Hurting in Africa

Helping Without Hurting in Africa Train leaders working to address material poverty across Africa to proclaim the gospel in both word and deed. Get Started Empower churches to bring lasting change with their own resources Train leaders to help low-income individuals and communities wisely Apply biblical poverty alleviation principles A training manual for ministry leaders…

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Faith & Finances Sample Curriculum

Faith & Finances Training

Financial Stewardship Designed for Low-Income Adults Start a financial education class for low-income adults with Faith & Finances. Get a FREE Curriculum Sample Gain skills and confidence with our online training Help people in poverty steward their money well Address poverty in a biblical, effective way Get a sample of Faith & Finances curriculum Name* First Last Email*…

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Innovate: Online

Get Trained and Equipped to Use Innovation Tools to Make Your Ministry More Effective Feel like there’s more you could do to make a difference in the lives of the people you’re walking alongside but not sure what to change? Register your team for Innovate Drawing from best practices in community development and easy-to-use innovation…

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Innovate: Online

Get Trained and Equipped to Use Innovation Tools to Make Your Ministry More Effective Feel like there’s more you could do to make a difference in the lives of the people you’re walking alongside but not sure what to change? Register for Innovate Drawing from best practices in community development and easy-to-use innovation and design…

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Video: Participation *Is* Development

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Getting everyone involved in a ministry initiative isn’t just a means to sustainability, but the heart of healthy, transformational development. Researchers and practitioners have found that meaningful inclusion of materially poor people in the selection, design, implementation, and evaluation of any poverty alleviation effort increases the likelihood of its success. Unfortunately, we often pursue approaches…

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Free Webinar: Helping International Orphans Without Hurting

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Caring for orphans and vulnerable children is a foundational way the church expresses Christ’s love to the world (James 1:27). How we seek to help them makes a world of difference. Empowering families through household economic development can help us do this well over the long haul, strengthening families, churches, and communities to address the…

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Holistic Approaches to Development

Material poverty is complex, and not reducible to a single cause. Healthy, sustainable poverty alleviation ministries need to address all five root causes of material poverty—Individual brokenness, Systemic brokenness, false stories of change, broken and destructive formative practices, and demonic forces. Over the last few weeks, we’ve looked at Ministry Design Principles that contribute to the kingdom community and to God’s story of change, and today we continue examining principles that equip us to replace destructive formative practices. We seek to evaluate and replace our existing practices in favor of those that empower and equip our communities.

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Building Community on Tiny Screens?

Building Community on Tiny Screens

“Are you going to adapt the 12-week Faith & Finances class into a virtual format that we can offer our participants?” In light of the coronavirus pandemic, the Chalmers staff have been asked this question a number of times over the past few months. Man, we get it. We’ve all had to scramble to pivot…

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Waging Spiritual Warfare on Racial Injustice

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Scripture has plenty to say about the ways Satan and his legions are actively involved in the affairs of this world, but we often ignore spiritual warfare. Every physical problem in this world is also spiritual in nature—and racism is no exception. How can churches address the spiritual roots of racial injustice?

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Restore: Savings

Restore Chalmers’ Restore curriculum equips churches and ministries with tools to start savings group ministries. Download Your FREE Curriculum Sample Empower churches to bring lasting change with their own resources Create supportive groups to help people in extreme poverty Harness local resources and avoid creating dependency Savings groups help people in extreme poverty weather the storms…

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Business & Home

Business & Home Address the economic and worldview issues of people living in poverty throughout Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Download a FREE Curriculum Sample Facilitate conversations on how to plan for business and health costs Help people create and improve sustainable businesses Help people manage household income A biblical framework for the everyday issues…

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Innovate

Discover a better way Innovate Your organization and context plus Chalmers’ tools and coaching leads to ministries that help without hurting. Register for Innovate! Address the broken relationships at the root of material poverty Apply the design thinking process and principles to your ministry Develop creative, sustainable solutions to help people “So, are we doing…

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Copy of Benevolence Training

Helping without Hurting in Benevolence Ministry Help your church or ministry make a real difference in your community.Get trained to develop a benevolence ministry that helps people who are materially poor experience lasting change. Get Trained Equip your church or ministry with a biblical foundation for responding to requests for financial help. Gain skills and…

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Chalmers Champion

Become a Chalmers Champion TODAY and see local communities flourish! Help bring practical economic development programs based on biblical principles to struggling communities so that all people are restored to flourishing participants in God’s kingdom. What your gift makes possible Your generosity paves the way for Chalmers to create, test, and refine holistic, biblically-based economic…

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