EGM Poverty 101 @ Northshore Christian Church

5700 23rd Drive West,Everett WA 98203

29 January, 2022

Description

Developed by the Everett Gospel Mission, Poverty 101 is a training that helps us understand the unique challenges of long-term poverty. WHAT YOU WILL LEARN Poverty 101 is an interactive series of exercises and learning experiences that helps our community better understand the unique challenges of long-term poverty and to assist individuals to better understand her/his own thinking about poverty and those experiencing poverty. It is designed to provide tools that will help each of us and our organization find the best way to engage with and come alongside people who are affected by poverty. In completing Poverty 101 you will: • Increase your self-awareness of life history and how that impacts your understanding of those experiencing poverty. • Explore differences of socio-economic cultures. • Understand different kinds of poverty – generational poverty, working class poverty, situational poverty, immigrant poverty, and depression era poverty - and how each kind of poverty differently impacts one’s views of self, God, and the world around us. • Learn about communication/perception differences and how they impact healthy interactions with those experiencing poverty. • Consider how systems might create barriers to change. • Learn how your church or organization/agency and you can be more effective in ministry to those affected by poverty and homelessness. It is relational not transactional. • Learn the difference between effective charity and toxic charity. • Discover how ministry/service to those affected by poverty homelessness can increase your church/agency's outreach and your appeal to your community while strengthening your church/agency's family. • Understand that we all share a “marred identity”, that is, from original sin and personal sin, and how understanding this allows us to humbly walk together, assisting each other in our life’s journey and walk with God. Admission is free but LIMITEDLunch is provided (please let us know of any special dietary neds when you register) Everett Gospel Mission first opened its doors in 1961 to care for the homeless men of Everett. Today, the Mission continues to be the only provider of emergency shelter for men. The mission has expanded to include services for single moms and single women. We provide shelter and life changing recovery programs for 145 men, and 75 women & children each night.   We provide all services without regard to age, gender, race or religion while sharing the love of Christ.   Everett Gospel Mission is a member in good standing of the Association of Gospel Rescue Missions, and is managed by community volunteers who serve on the Board of Directors, as well as our CEO, Sylvia Anderson.   As a 501(c) 3 non-profit organization, we are audited annually by an independent firm. 90% of our funding is provided by individuals, businesses, churches and foundations.