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  • New Book: Uncharted Journey

    On the Challenges of Getting Older and Other Transitions

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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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“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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Medical Access Simulation

Maximum # of participants: 25 This simulation addresses the realities of universal healthcare and how access would still be an issue.

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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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Grace-full Love by the Week

Reading the same passage for a week can often expand our understanding of Biblical verses in wondrous ways. This new devotional book offers readers that opportunity over the course of a year, with 52 passages and seven devotionals relating to each passage that are excerpted from the author’s sermons....

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George’s War: Then and Now

What began as a simple writing project to take my great-grandfather’s book that had languished on shelves for decades and bring it back using current language and idioms became an unexpected quest. I learned that the Civil War was more than battles. George F. Robertson never witnessed any gun...

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The Sacred Year

On February 10, 2018, my life as I knew it came to a screeching halt. The day before, I had rushed my husband, Jim to the hospital… This is the story of the first year of that journey, a year that will forever be sacred.

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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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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: 218 Croft Street, Greenville, SC 29609

Phone: +1 864-380-6023
Website: https://oewo.org

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