Pivot Graduate Featured in Article

Aug 23, 2022

After receiving one of two site grants from the national WMU Foundation earlier this year, Pivot and our part-time employee and Pivot graduate, Kim McDermott, were featured in an article that appears in two publications:

See the online article here, where you can also read about other successful graduates from similar Christian Women’s Job Corps sites
Or read the article here, as it was published in The Baptist Paper on August 18, 2022.

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.

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