True Charity
- What’s Justice Got to Do With It? How Justice Works With Charity to Uplift the Poor
- After The Storm: How to Shape Our Mercy Ministries for Long-term Success
- Second Chances: Helping Returning Citizens Reintegrate
- Is Healing From Childhood Adversity Possible? A Review of the Book Created to Heal.
- Is Your Mission Statement B.I.G. Enough?
- How to Locally Support Refugees
- How Do I Truly Help Panhandlers?
- Civil Society Crowded Out in Missouri
- Exchange Models Done Right: Eight Ways to Empower Without Exploiting
- Questions to Ask Before Starting a Supportive Housing Ministry
Modeling Potential Income and Welfare-Assistance Benefits in Illinois
Single Parent with Two Children Household and Two Parents with Two Children Household Scenarios in Cook County, City of Chicago, Lake County and St. Clair County Excerpted from Illinois Policy Institute. […]
The Rising Cost of Social Security Disability Insurance
Excerpted from “Policy Analysis” Newsletter from the CATO Institute. Written by Tad DeHaven – Originally Published August 6, 2013 Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) is one of the largest federal […]
Less Welfare, More Charity
Published on 8-23-14 Excerpted from the CATO Institute (www.cato.org). Written by Michael D. Tanner – Originally Published on www.nationalreview.com, August 20, 2014 In 1985, wealthy New York businessman George McDonald […]
Where Empowerment Begins
James Whitford, Executive Director Watered Gardens Gospel Rescue Mission – Published in The Joplin Globe, April 30, 2014 I recall a trip to Grand Rapids where mission and church […]
Redefining Poverty
James Whitford, Executive Director Watered Gardens Gospel Rescue Mission – Published in The Joplin Globe, June 19, 2013 I remember meeting a man on the main road through Fond […]
Why work?
James Whitford, Executive Director Watered Gardens Gospel Rescue Mission Last week a couple of nice police officers approached me at the rescue mission to discuss a problem. People are […]