We were a little confused when we received a report from one church explaining that a man had decided to “wed his wife.” But it’s a common scenario: many couples have never formally married because they simply can’t afford to. [...]
It’s easy to get discouraged. I look around at all the brokenness in our country and in the world, and I sometimes think, “How could this ever change? What does it matter if I work, give, pray, volunteer, advocate, vote, [...]
The Wholistic Development Center (WDC) is preparing for graduation! Spring commencement is an exciting time for time for high school and university students around the world. But for the students of WDC, graduation is extra-special. In the country where WDC [...]
Poverty is often caused by societal systems that favor some people over others. And those systems are fed by broken beliefs
Easter is my favorite holiday. I mean, I love Christmas...but to be honest, trying to balance “keeping Christ in Christmas” with all the cultural baggage of the holiday leaves me completely exhausted. But not Easter. Somehow, within the confines of [...]
Good news for 2019, dear reader: God loves you. If you’re like me (maybe a little jaded), this statement probably feels like Sunday school 101. But for the world’s most vulnerable people, understanding that God is love, and that God [...]
We recently received a multitude of stories from partner churches who are studying TCT through Food for the Hungry in Uganda. I’ve spent a good chunk of my day reading reports of hundreds of Christians in dozens of churches [...]
Christmas is upon us. My festive and overachieving husband has put 11,040 twinkle lights on our house. My children are practicing carols on the piano. The oranges on our tree are changing color (it may be snowing where you live, [...]
I had the opportunity to visit India a few months ago. While I was there, I met and talked with a widow named Nagamani. She was young—I’m guessing under thirty. Yet when she lost her husband, she felt her life [...]
Well hello there, faithful blog readers! While we’ve been super busy at RW writing Framework for Transformation booklets and making video stories (coming soon…), we’ve taken a break from most of our blogging. But, it’s a new year (No, I [...]
