{"id":6215,"date":"2015-07-23T06:39:26","date_gmt":"2015-07-23T06:39:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cvm.org.uk\/blog\/?p=6215"},"modified":"2015-07-23T09:50:41","modified_gmt":"2015-07-23T09:50:41","slug":"trickle-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cvm.org.uk\/blog\/50plus\/trickle-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Trickle Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2011, 60% of the world&#8217;s 1 billion &#8216;extremely poor people&#8217; lived in 5 countries- India, Nigeria, China, Bangladesh and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.<\/p>\n<p>This statistic indicates that &#8216;trickle down&#8217;\u00a0is not a very effective agent of economic development!<\/p>\n<p>From my own experience of working in the developing world as a civil engineer I have observed that the\u00a0&#8216;people friendly&#8217; grass roots projects are the ones that help the poor. They are the ones that are community led and encourage development of talent and long term thinking<\/p>\n<p>About 6 months ago my wife and I moved to a church that was &#8216;Trickle up&#8217; rather than &#8216;Trickle down&#8217;. We feel liberated, loved and very blessed! Lots of churches talk about &#8216;Every member ministry&#8217; and think it is a good idea, but do they do it? It is very demanding because as church members, we each take on responsibility and like a family we don&#8217;t always agree. The leadership team become facilitators and encourage the development of ministries as well as washing up the tea mugs.<\/p>\n<p>There is a CVM\/One Voice day conference on &#8216;Every member ministry&#8217; at York on the 10th October 2015. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arkchurch.co.uk\/events\/winning-men-one-day-conference-cvm\"><strong>See here for details<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The conference will also explore other aspects of &#8216;Trickle up&#8217;. 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