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Where There Are No Jobs: Economic Development as Holistic Christian Ministry :: Review by Ralph Winter

This man, Befus, is currently head of the Latin America Mission, has spent 25 years in hands-on economic development, and has an MBA plus a PhD. One of his writings published by Indiana University is “From Assistance to Enterprise: the Re-Engineering of World Vision Community Development.” He points out that while people need to work to make a living, giving them a living without enabling them to be productively involved themselves is no solution.This is an absolutely fabulous book, based on extensive and in-depth experience. Loaded with insights that are anything but arm-chair, yet perceptive of basic themes and principles. Very knowledgeable about secular approaches, very realistic about human failure.

Ralph Winter is the founder of the U.S. Center for World Mission, William Carey Interantional University, the American Society of Missiology, International Society for Frontier Missions and other mission organizations. In 1979 he founded Mission Frontiers, the bulletin of the U.S. Center for World Mission.

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posted by Justin Forman | 10.11.2007 - 7:00 AM

3 Comments:

can we get a link to purchase this book? I tried Amazon to no avail.

dan
commented by Anonymous Anonymous, 8:01 AM  

http://shop3.gospelcom.net/epages/lam.storefront/EN/Product/1408
commented by Blogger Justin Forman, 10:14 PM  

www.lam.org, and it is also supposed to be available at Amazon.

Thanks for this. I am now working fulltime in Sincelejo, Colombia with job creation programs, helping the displaced people through a network of churches.

David Befus
commented by Anonymous Anonymous, 8:03 AM  

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