The Circles USAmodel of creating Circles is explored and recommended throughout the book. We are not our own.When Helping Hurts has sold more than 225,000 copies is considered a classic on the subject of the role faith-based organizations play in the alleviation of poverty in their community. The authors said it a few times, but somehow churchgoers aren't getting the message. Allow me put the burden to words: "your giving is probably making things worse, and now you must become an expert in establishing ministries and relationships that you have no experience with or access to." Does anybody else see that? That's why I tried to distill the contents of this book for anyone who isn't sure they would benefit from reading it: just focus on ministries that are providing help that lasts. For me, the title is putting to words a feeling so many of us have had, then increasing the burden. It is a well-written and useful book, but I think its very existence creates a problem without providing a solution. I owned the book for years and only now made it past the first chapter, and that only because I found myself in contact with a desperate person in the midst of a "majority world" famine. The book is helpful if you want to build your expertise in this, but I found the book to be intimidating to the average church-goer (if I fall into that category). But let me save you some time, money, and effort: the simple solution is to give whatever you can, of your heart, money, time, knowledge, and efforts, to ministries that are using proven methods that can be expected to have sustained results. This book is obviously teaching us how and why we must be wiser in our efforts to help those in poverty.
Give more, but to ministries helping long-term.
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