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  • Our Eyes Were Opened

    Helping people understand poverty so they can reach out with wisdom and compassion.

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  • When You Open Your Eyes…

    You will learn how to see — really see — poverty in your community. There’s nothing like getting out and touring your own community.

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  • Poverty Is More Than A Number

    Learn about the realities of living in poverty and how it affects one’s life, health, beliefs and more.

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Loving Our Neighbor

Based on Beth’s book, Loving Our Neighbor, this workshop helps participants uncover some of their own ideas about how poverty affects behavior. By highlighting funds of knowledge, various ways that congregations interact with...

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Servant or Sucker?

Participants learn successful ways to help others, the three V’s, the A-B-C of helping and L.E.A.R.N. to say no in helpful ways.

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Overview of Poverty Workshop

Participants consider three definition of poverty. One is academic, another is based on the federal poverty guidelines, and the third is experiential. The workshop teaches the powerful and insightful concept of funds of...

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Understanding Poverty in the Classroom

Teachers, students, and parents learn how poverty affects a child’s educational experience. Based on concepts found in Beth’s books, Understanding Poverty in the Classroom and Angelika’s Journal, participants consider how behaviors required at...

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The ReEntry Simulation

The ReEntry Simulation helps participants experience some of the challenges of re-entering society after being incarcerated. These are real problems for real people. If we as a community do not recognize these issues...

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Poverty Simulation

The Poverty Simulation opens people’s eyes to the human cost of poverty. The power of this unique learning resource is that it creates, like nothing else, insight into the state of chronic crisis...

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Poverty Tour

Maximum # of Participants: 14 This tour takes participants through various neighborhoods in Greenville, S.C. Beth discusses the positives and negatives of living in the areas that are blighted or redeveloped.

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“I Want to Work” – Teen Job Fair Simulation

The “I Want to Work” simulation is an interactive learning experience for youth that addresses the complexities of getting a job, especially for low-income and homeless people in our community. How the Simulation...

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"Jesus is the starving, the parched, the prisoner, the stranger, the naked, the sick, the dying.
Jesus is the oppressed, the poor. To live with Jesus is to live with the poor.
To live with the poor is to live with Jesus.”
― Jean Vanier, Community And Growth

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Refrigerator Prayers for Ordinary People

Refrigerator Prayers for Ordinary People provides daily prayers for those times when you need help getting started with your own prayer for the day or for when you just can't think of anything to say to God. You may find various prayers...

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Loving Our Neighbor: A Thoughtful Approach To Helping People In Poverty

This book grew out of the many questions Beth has received and addresses topics like how to begin a direct aid ministry, what to do when someone on the street asks you for money and how to set up your own poverty tour.

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Understanding Poverty in the Classroom: Changing Perceptions for Student Success

Educators can utilize this book as a tool to improve the education process for other teachers, students, parents by realizing the differences that children in poverty experience.

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Conversations on the Porch: Ancient Voices, Contemporary Wisdom

These conversations with 30 biblical women that visit Beth’s porch address diverse sets of circumstances and challenges.

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Beth Lindsay Templeton

As a community activist, author, minister, consultant and teacher, Beth Templeton hosts a variety of workshops to help remove our "blinders" when addressing persistent poverty in our society.

Our Mission

Our Eyes Were Opened helps people understand about poverty so they can reach out with wisdom and compassion.

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Address: PO Box 73 Greenville SC 29602

Phone: +1 864-380-6023
Website: http://oureyeswereopened.org

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