Many of you are aware and some of you have read the recently published book from The Chalmers Center written by Steve Corbett and Brian Fikkert. The book is entitled, When Helping Hurts: Alleviating Poverty Without Hurting the Poor...and Ourselves. We will be spending time this next summer reading and discussing this work for our YA book club. It is a very helpful resource in the continuing conversation on how to honor God, build the church, and strengthen the wider community while meeting the needs of the poor. For our own context, this book will help us evaluate our past efforts at mercy ministry and help promote better thinking, deeper relationships, wiser action plans, and steadfastness in follow up.