Hope for children in poverty : profiles and possibilities

Sider, Ronald J. (Added Author). Unruh, Heidi Rolland. (Added Author).

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ISBN: 0817015051 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780817015053 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Physical Description: xxviii, 168 p. : ill ; 23 cm.
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Publisher: Valley Forge, PA : Judson Press, c2007.

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Foreword : setting our moral compass / Marian Wright Edelman -- Preface / Ronald J. Sider and Heidi Unruh -- Introduction : making a difference for children in poverty / Heidi Unruh -- Sect. I. The lives of children in poverty -- 1. "It feels like we've been buried" / Jonathan Kozol -- Ministry profile seeds of hope : Caritas Alegres (happy faces) ministry -- 2. Basic facts about low-income children / National Center for Children in Poverty -- Ministry profile "you don't remember me, do you ?" : Fifth Avenue Baptist Child Care Center -- 3. Poor children : the walking wounded / Jennifer Coulter Stapleton -- Ministry profile downtown urban community kids (DUCK) -- 4. Suffer the children : the impact of poverty on America's youth / Robert Odom -- Ministry profile a place for homeless children to call their own -- Sect. II. Special concerns of children in poverty -- 5. Children of working parents growing up in poverty / Charon Hribar and Paul Chapman -- Ministry profile the work of a Saint : St. John Baptist Church mentoring program -- 6. Empowering children through effective education / Delia Stafford and Vicky Dill -- Ministry profile home as a base for ministry with children : the homework club -- 7. Health care needs of poor children / Bruce Jackson -- Ministry profile BabySteps -- 8. Shattered bonds : poverty, race, and the child welfare system / Dorothy Roberts -- Ministry profile children's defense fund : promoting faithful advocacy for children -- 9. Children in era of welfare reform / Sharon Parrott and Arloc Sherman -- Ministry profile "children are not in the way, they Are the Way" : youth in the poor people's economic human rights campaign -- 10. What government can (and can't) do / Curtis Ramsey-Lucas -- Ministry profile Nueva creadon / new creation Lutheran Church : church and school working together for kids -- Sect. III. Biblical reflections on children in poverty -- 11. Jesus' view of children / Wess Stafford and Dean Merrill -- Ministry profile cookman alternative school for at-risk youth -- 12. Why and how Christians should care for poor children / Ronald J. Sider and Heidi Unruh -- 13. Slipping off on the Bible's sloping side / Charles E. Poole -- Ministry profile churches, homeless single mothers, and professionals : three-way partnerships that build a bridge of hope for children -- 14. Children in the early church / James Riley Estep, Jr. Ministry profile mentoring that makes a difference : three national models -- 15. Gifts from ministry with the poor / Amy L. Sherman.