OUR HISTORY
Five ministries—In His Image, Ending Gendercide, The Create Commission, the Wholistic Development Center, and Truth Centered Transformation—came together as founding members of Reconciled World. Together, we launched out of Food for the Hungry (FH) in 2013, but our story starts much earlier…
1999
FH staff from South and Southeast Asia attended Vision Conferences (now operated by Disciple Nations Alliance (DNA). Over the next decade, those practitioners went on to launch a variety of local ministries based on Darrow Miller and Bob Moffit’s teachings.
2000
FH set up a training program in India, with the vision of seeing the Church impact and transform the nation by understanding God’s truth and serving the most vulnerable through Acts of Love.
2003
Truth Centered Transformation was launched in Southeast Asia, as an experiment to see if people could move out of poverty with no outside resources by applying biblical truth. The director intended to train ten churches… things did not go according to plan. Within nine months, the experiment had gotten completely out of hand, with 600 churches participating. (Read about it in our Founder’s Story)
2004
The first annual international artist residency was held as an initiative of FH in India. The same year, a seven-year-old boy in India was diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder, sending his mother on a search for support and services that would eventually lead her to establish In His Image. You can read her story in our blog archives.
2005
The Wholistic Development Center was established in Southeast Asia. Despite initial suspicion and animosity from both government agents and Christian leaders, the founders persevered to give young people a place to be discipled and to learn income-generating skills. You can read testimonies from WDC graduates in our blog archives.
2007
In His Image was established to bring wholistic interventions to children with autism and to help society see the God-given potential of children with special needs.
2008
One of our founding programs, the Worldview Training Initiative (WTI) began as an initiative of FH in India.
*WTI officially stopped operating in 2024
2013
The founding members confirmed seven principles (now called our Framework for Transformation) as the uniting philosophy of our ministry. Reconciled World launched on October 1, with a vision of making visible God’s power to transform the lives of vulnerable people. We celebrated with a great big bonfire and fireworks on a beach in Thailand!
2016
Truth Centered Transformation began replicating in Africa and South Asia. We were quickly reminded, once again, that we aren’t nearly as in control as we think we are, but that God is able to do more than we can ask or imagine! You can read a bit more about it in our blog archives.
2017
We launched our Justice Prayer initiative—inviting churches, small groups, and individuals to join with us in praying for issues of brokenness and vulnerability. Prayer is so important because we know that only God can bring transformation. You can view our library of prayer resources and join intercessors around the world on our prayer page.
2019
A series of “Framework for Transformation” booklets were completed and the learning platform frameworkfortransformation.org went live. We created these resources to help partners and practitioners understand the biblical principles our work is built on. The central truth of our Framework is this: human solutions don’t have the power to bring the transformation we long for but, as we seek to obey God’s word, we can see Him work powerfully in our midst.