E-BOOKS

CHRISTIAN MICROENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT: COUNTING THE COST AND BUILDING THE KINGDOM Paper by Russell P. Mask


BOOKS

CHRISTIAN MICRO-ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT: AN INTRODUCTION
The world of microenterprise development (MED) can be bewildering. There are so many terms, so many organizations, and so many concepts to learn. Frankly, it is all rather overwhelming. Where can a person turn to sort it all out? If this is how you are feeling, then this book is for you.


ARTICLES

DEPENDENCY: IS MICRO-CREDIT AN ANSWER? by Joseph E. Richter
It was during our second year of Peace Corps service that God used the overwhelming hopelessness of poverty to convict us of our own lack of love for the poor! Culture shock, sickness, government corruption and nauseating poverty brought us to real repentance and a new life in Jesus Christ. These experiences ingrained in us a love for the poor and a desire to help those in poverty find a dignified way out of it. (Read more)

MICRO-ENTERPRISE AMONG THE UNREACHED: HELPING THE POOR WITH SMALL LOANS by Steve Goode
There are now more people and churches that are targeting the unreached or wanting to adopt a people group but what will the gospel look like when it comes to the unreached? Most of the unreached were and still are the 1-2 billion people living in acute poverty or on the edge of poverty in the 10/40 Window! This information has been available for several decades but unfortunately, there are still few missionaries or churches that are working amongst the poor in the Window. (Read more … Note: you may need to click the refresh button upon entering this site)

MICROENTERPRISE: GIVING CREDIT WHERE CREDIT IS DUE by Larry Wilson
For most of 24-year-old Nuuru Miiro's adult life, she waged a daily battle against hunger. The Ugandan woman's hard-earned meager income barely enabled her to feed her children each day. Selling chapati bread, she earned $1.50 a day - just enough to pay for food for her family and for the ingredients she needed to bake more bread the next day. It wasn't nearly enough to expand her business or income. (Read more)


WORKING PAPERS

CHALMERS CENTER FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT WORKING PAPERS


ORGANIZATIONS

CHALMERS CENTER FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPEMENT
The Chalmers Center for Economic Development at Covenant College assists the church worldwide in declaring the Kingdom of God by bringing economic development and spiritual transformation in the context of low-income communities. Through research and education, the Center trains college students, missionaries, churches and Christian ministries to implement holistic, church-centered strategies that truly empower low-income people to support themselves via their own work.

HOPE INTERNATIONAL
HOPE International is a global Christian ministry serving the poor in developing countries, providing Hope for Today and Hope for Tomorrow through sustainable microenterprise development and parallel Children’s Ministries. 

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