# Event Details

- **Event Name**: The Cost of Poverty Experience
- **Event Start and End Date**: Sat, 17 Jan, 2026 at 09:30 am
- **Event Description**: Have you ever wondered what it’s truly like to live on the margins? Or how our good intentions might unintentionally hurt more than help?
Join us for The Cost of Poverty Experience (COPE): a 2½-hour immersive event by Think Tank that helps participants understand the daily challenges faced by families in poverty. Admission is by donation, allowing everyone to take part in this transformational experience. Through immersive role-play, you’ll gain insight into the day-to-day decisions, challenges, and systemic barriers faced by people in poverty. 
This is not just an empathy exercise; it’s a catalyst for reflection, dialogue, and transformation.

Following the 2 1/2 hour simulation, we’ll gather for a Debrief Session where we’ll:
• Have lunch together
- Reflect on the experience and what it revealed about our assumptions and emotions
• Discuss principles from When Helping Hurts and how we can serve without unintentionally harming
• Explore the heart of Servant Leadership — learning to walk with others rather than for them
• Identify next steps for how our church can serve our neighbors with dignity and partnership

Let's kick off the new year by learning to be followers of Christ who serve with humility, understanding, and love.
This experience is for ages 18+. Childcare will not be provided.
Register: https://www.shelbygiving.com/App/Form/b85f9dd0-d6c9-434e-a02d-0dfad46da3c6
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/dayton/the-cost-of-poverty-experience/200029384437831
- **Event Categories**: nonprofit
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 23

## Ticket Details


## Event venue details

- **city**: Dayton
- **state**: OH
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 3440 Shroyer Rd, Dayton, OH 45429-2612, United States
- **lat**: 39.69815
- **long**: -84.16191
- **full address**: 3440 Shroyer Rd, Dayton, OH 45429-2612, United States

## Event gallery

- **Alt text**: The Cost of Poverty Experience
  - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events9/banners/a6d464f092ba2bedf719ee3bae228b338f0aeb7596b14ee566cf6336eac020d3-rimg-w1200-h675-dc314676-gmir?v=1767559374

## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is The Cost of Poverty Experience being held?
  - **A:** The Cost of Poverty Experience takes place on Sat, 17 Jan, 2026 at 09:30 am to Sat, 17 Jan, 2026 at 09:30 am at 3440 Shroyer Rd, Dayton, OH 45429-2612, United States.
- **Q**: Who is organizing The Cost of Poverty Experience?
  - **A:** The Cost of Poverty Experience is organized by Mosaic Church-Better Together.

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