Mandate is the Chalmers Center's newsletter. It educates people on key issues in ministry to the poor as well as the specific approach that the Chalmers Center takes in ministry. It also highlights real life stories about what our partners and participants are doing as a result of our training as they bring economic development and spiritual transformation to the poor.

These particular issues of Mandate are from Winter 1999 to Winter 2005. They are in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) and you need a PDF reader to view them. If you do not have a PDF reader, click here to download a free copy of Adobe®Acrobat®Reader.

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In this issue:

• Relief and Development: - Ideas and Issues to Consider
• Church Planting Without Over Fertilizing
• Development Strategies Used in Ministry to Unreached Muslims
• Chalmers Center Has a New Partner

Click here to download Mandate Winter 2005 newsletter.

In this issue:

• What Can Your Church do to Help the Poor in the U.S.? by Dr. Brian Fikkert
• So Your Church Wants to Minister Holistically? by Rev. Phil Olson
• Delivering From Mammon by Jim Sutherland, Ph.D.
• Matched Savings Program Makes a Difference in Memphis by Mark Clark
• Using Housing Ministry to Sing a New Song by Mark Gornik and Allan Tibbels

Click here to download Mandate Spring 2004 newsletter.

In this issue:

• Alternative Microfinance Strategies for Churches and Missionaries by Dr. Brian Fikkert
• Appropriate Financial Services for Low-Income People by Dr. Brian Fikkert
• Pointers for Practitioners: Should Your Church's Missions Board Fund Overseas Businesses? by Dr. Russell Mask

Click here to download Mandate Spring 2003 newsletter.

In this issue:

• Covenant Launches Community Development Major
• Chalmers Center Conducts Three Day Training in Ethiopia by Andy Warren
• Is There Something Wrong With Our Kids? by Dr. Brian Fikkert

Click here to download Mandate Fall 2002 newsletter.

In this issue:

• Chalmers Center Hosts Christian Economic Development Institute by Andy Warren
• Institute has Immediate Impact in Philadelphia by Christy Norwood (Covenant '03)
• Banking on the Church by Dr. Brian Fikkert

Click here to download Mandate Summer 2002 newsletter.

In this issue:

• Building Assets and Community by Liz Absher
• Filipino Church Empowers the Poor
• Garbage Dump Christianity

Click here to download Mandate Spring 2002 newsletter.

In this issue:

• Connecting in a "Detached" Place
• September 11, 2001
• An Interview with John Perkins

Click here to download Mandate Winter 2001 newsletter.

In this issue:

• Entrepreneurs Ready For Business
• Repenting of the Health and Wealth Gospel by Dr. Brian Fikkert
• Courses in Africa Provide Unique Learning Experience by Andy Warren

Click here to download Mandate Fall 2001 newsletter.

In this issue:

• Internet Permits Global Training
• The Gift of Agitation by Dr. Amy Sherman
• Rosca Helps Poor Meet Needs by Maria Luz Garcia
• Chalmers Launches Project in Ethiopia by Andy Warren

Click here to download Mandate Summer 2001 newsletter.

In this issue:

• Grad Uses Training to Help Refugees
• Hope for Change Rooted in Faith
• The Great Evangelical Myth by Dr. Brian Fikkert
• An Interview with Amy Sherman
• Here I am, Send Me by Charity Throener (Covenant '00)
• Sign on the Dotted Line by Sila Tuju (Covenant '96)

Click here to download Mandate Spring 2001 newsletter.

In this issue:

• God Uses Chain Reaction
• Church Rejects Christian Carol by Dr. Brian Fikkert
• What is God Doing with Mission to the World?
• Freedom is Proclaimed to the Captives by Steve Nikkel
• The Debt Trap is Hard to Escape

Click here to download Mandate Winter 2000 newsletter.

In this issue:

• Graduates Pursue Ministry to the Poor
• Holistic Ministry in Africa Seeks to Bring "Higher Peace" by Becky Chinchen
• Former Convict Finds Hope and Turns Life Around by Charity Throener (Covenant '00)
• Savings and Credit Groups Minister in Word and Deed by Russell Mask

Click here to download Mandate Summer 00 newsletter.

In this issue:

• Chalmers works with Harvard Team
• Welfare to Work: Can it Work? by Charity Throener (Covenant '00)
• Covenant Class Makes a Difference by Kara Stanley (Covenant '00)
• Chalmers Collaborates with International Relief Agency
• Chalmers' Kenya Team Evaluates Challenges by Sila Tuju (Covenant '96)

Click here to download Mandate Spring 00 newsletter.

In this issue:

• Nikkel Equipping Entrepreneurs
• "Frozen Lady" Embodies Lessons by Joe Staven (Covenant '00)
• Low Interest Loans Help Break Cycle of Poverty
• Shideler's Research Targets Jobs for the Poor

Click here to download Mandate Winter 99 newsletter.