God’s Power
Just a couple of days ago I had the honor of sitting down with some brothers from South Sudan while they shared about their nation. One of the stories that still haunts me is of how soldiers are renting out [...]
Prayer: Poverty
Poverty is complex. How we address poverty is tricky. To wildly over-simplify things, we can think of poverty in two categories: generational poverty—poverty that you see around much of the majority world; poverty that you are born into and never [...]
Prayer: Persecution
Christmas is approaching. It’s a season when Christians all over the world love to share about their faith. Unfortunately, that also means that it’s a time when persecution increases. I live in what is labelled a ‘closed’ or ‘creative access’ [...]
Giving Tuesday
It’s #GivingTuesday, the day when we all plead with you to send us any spare pennies that remain after the joys of Thanksgiving, Black Friday and Cyber Monday. We’re changing it up a bit this year, though. We aren’t asking [...]
This I Know
Wow, phew, it’s been quite the month so far. The USA is still reeling from elections and New Zealand (my home country) was rocked by earthquakes. India, where I have a number of friends and we have lots of partners, [...]
Prayer: Elections
This article was originally posted in October 2016. We are happy to report that, in January 2019, Congo had its first ever peaceful change of leadership. Since then, President Félix Tshisekedi has twice called the church leaders to join him [...]
Join Us: Pray!
“The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective.” James 5:16b Here in the wonderful world of Reconciled World we are getting more focused on prayer. As we arrive at the grand age of three years old, we have [...]
Sit Down, Martha
October 1 was our birthday. Reconciled World celebrates being three years old. Each year has been marked by a theme. The first year was a year of stability—we celebrated that we had come into existence and survived. The second year [...]
WDC: Breaking Lies
Beliefs can be powerful. They impact the way that we live, interact with others and see the future. For the students at the Wholistic Development Center (WDC), one of the most common and oppressive misbeliefs is that they have no [...]
Welcoming the Vulnerable
As I travel around the world (which is nearly constant now), I love to ask people, “What do you see God doing? How are churches reaching out to their communities? What can we celebrate?” Getting these glimpses of how churches [...]