Not all poverty is created equal and yet, so often, our response to different types of poverty is the same. There are those who are truly deserving of our charity and those who are experts at cheating the system, should they be receiving the same charity? 

Terry grew up in a violent and negligent home. He left when he was just 16 years old, becoming homeless. He remembers this time of his life as one of the poorest he has ever experienced. If anyone was deserving of charity, it would have been Terry. Yet, Terry claims that mis-categorization of his need is exactly what kept him in his drug addiction and poverty for far too many years. 

Hear what Terry has to say in his interview with James Whitford, Co-Founder and CEO of Watered Gardens Gospel Rescue Mission and learn how to tell the difference between those in need of immediate relief and those in need of challenge and development through this third mark of effective charity, "Categorization."