Celebrate!

Mar 29, 2024

Check out Pivot’s latest newsletter as we celebrate our Volunteers, our Staff, and our recent Accreditation! There’s other interesting news too. Here’s the link.

Before you go, check out these Volunteer Opportunities:

Claim a shift in Pivot’s booth at one or both of these events:
- April 20 Community Day at Galilee Missionary Baptist Church.
- May 10 & 11 at the ROCC Pivot Ministry 5k in Clemmons.
Bring lunch to a class. Sign up HERE. A few openings remain this semester.
You and/or your group can help with the graduation of our eighth class. Contact Michelle or Carol if interested.

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Some Key Points About Poverty

1. Poverty and wealth are relative. We basically know our own poverty or wealth only in relationship to others.

2. Poverty occurs in all races and countries.

3. Generational and situational poverty are different. When a family has been in poverty two generations or more, there are certain patterns and habits. In situational poverty, resources are temporarily reduced, but the mindset remains largely with the middle-class norms and values.

4. There are hidden rules in each of us related to the economic group in which we were raised.

5. Most schools, businesses, and many churches use the hidden rules of middle class. For churches to be effective across classes, members must understand the hidden rules of generational poverty, as well as middle class.

6. The fundamental reasons for poverty are lack of educational attainment and the disconnection of family and/or community.

7. Four reasons one leaves poverty: It’s too painful to stay, a vision or goal, a key relationship, or a special talent or skill.

Source: What Every Church Member Should Know About Poverty (2012) R.K. Payne & B. Ehlig.
Reprinted with permission. aha! Process, Inc.

Celebrate!

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