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Transforming communities bitesize

A free video course for your church to learn about our innovative work and apply it to your own community.

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About this course

You'll learn about the process that's proven to help people lift themselves out of extreme poverty.

This process has empowered over 32,000 churches around the world to:

  • Identify their God-given resources
  • Find their own solutions
  • Shape their own futures

12 sessions in 3 parts

The full course is split into 3 parts, with each part containing 4 sessions.

  • Part 1: Foundational concepts
  • Part 2: (coming 2025)
  • Part 3: (coming 2025)

We'll provide access to parts 2 and 3 when it becomes available.

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What you’ll gain from the course

  • An understanding of poverty, its causes, and how we can address these.
  • An opportunity to apply some of these principles to your own community.
  • An idea of how you and your church can partner with Tearfund in to end extreme poverty.

Course highlights

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Part 1 sessions

  • How do we define poverty and how are local communities using their God-given resources to lift themselves out of it?
    How do we define poverty and how are local communities using their God-given resources to lift themselves out of it?
  • Poverty isn't God's plan. What are the broken relationships that cause poverty? How are they restored by Christ and through the local church?
    Poverty isn't God's plan. What are the broken relationships that cause poverty? How are they restored by Christ and through the local church?
  • What happens when we see God's creation as a source of abundance, not scarcity? How does our mindset affect how we act in the world?
    What happens when we see God's creation as a source of abundance, not scarcity? How does our mindset affect how we act in the world?
  • Why is a sustainable process out of extreme poverty more empowering to communities than a product to relieve it?
    Why is a sustainable process out of extreme poverty more empowering to communities than a product to relieve it?
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