Bringing in the Sheaves

Transforming Poverty into Productivity

George Grant’s Bringing in the Sheaves was originally written in the late 1980s.  It presents Grant’s vision for how the church and private charity can deal with the nation’s poverty.  Grant shows how the church in Humble, Texas, of which he was the pastor at the time, dealt with the poor in their midst by constructing programs that actually worked to get the poor back on their feet.  His overall thesis is that the church and the private sector is better able than is the civil government to make productive citizens of those in poverty.  The major roadblock is not any inherent weakness in the church but results from the unwillingness of many Christians to deal with the problem.