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Who Are the Poor in your City or Slum?

  1. Who are the poor of your city? slum?
  2. Which are destitute through no fault of their own?
  3. Which are destitute because of calamity?
  4. Which are destitute because of oppression or dispossession?
  5. Which are destitute through their own sins?
  6. What responses does the city have to poverty? your slum?
  7. What responses does the church of the city currently have?
  8. What responses should it have?
  9. What further research is needed to begin to formulate a vision for the serving the poor?

Have your group diagram the harvest fields of responsive urban poor, where the harvest force is located and what are the connections between them.

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