Relief is a door opener. Once the door is open we work from the inside out at the grass-root level. A church planting mentality of letting others do it for themselves can lead us to development. Back to Top Train the church to see and analyze good models of development projects. Impact the preachers of the local churches, who are the mouthpieces, with the concepts of development ministries.
Ministers are bridges of relationship, linking needs of people to resources.
Must influence them first. Educate our churches and leaders to be able to see that people have different needs, understand what development is and how those relate to evangelism. We must educate people who head our major organizations, both formal and informal power bases in our churches as well as our educational institutions. We must educate our missionaries before they go out. Most of the missionary education is happening through the universities.