Community development - Gavin Porter

For five and a half years, Gavin has served with a ministry called Partners in Grace in a very poor, black, rural community. Gavin ministers in three areas of help: relief, development and empowerment. Relief is the temporary assistance that alleviates serious immediate suffering. Development involves thinking and working in three areas: intellectually, physically and spiritually. Empowerment is what makes development possible. It is what is done to encourage and enable development, and it can be done in a variety of ways: training, teaching, small loans, etc. (Gavin was originally with World Mission Centre.)