Domestic Poverty / Social Justice

AED Domestic Poverty Toolkit
     Developed for use during Lent, 2011

Materials are organized in 3 categories:
1. Defining & Measuring Poverty

• Measuring Poverty in the US - Fact Sheet
• Concepts of Income Distribution, Wealth & Poverty

2. Teaching Congregations about Poverty

• Starting a Community Garden
• 5-week Congregational Study: Where there is despair, hope.
• Stations of the Cross & Suffering today - a chart
• Just Neighbors - Family Promise's educational program
• Called to Serve: The Church responds to domestic poverty, April 2010. A sermon by The Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori
• Systems & Economic Justice
• Teaching Poverty - Links to online resources
• Poverty Sunday Toolkit - produced by Sojourners, 2008

3. Telling the Story of Poverty

• Community Garden Leadership Handbook

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