A Small Garden Leads to Big Growth A Flourishing Garden Arnold's church began doing small Acts of Love as they studied TCT. When the village headman saw their good work, he donated a plot of land to the church. The [...]
Love’s Domino Effect There's nothing more satisfying than setting up a line of dominos, and (if toddlers or pets or a misplaced elbow don't ruin it) watching them fall down tile by tile. The slow tedious work of putting it [...]
Becoming ‘Those who See’ “I choose to become the ‘I see you’ in a world full of ‘you’re not enough’”. –Patricia Seymour As visionaries, it’s common to focus on the gap between where we are and where we hope to [...]
In a small community in the Philippines, a local church was committed to seeing more people come through its doors. They devoted their energy and resources to this goal. But after completing the first module of TCT, they realized that [...]
Many Christians around the world love God with all their hearts, but believe that due to their poverty, they are unable to follow God’s call to love their neighbors. They see desperation around them, yet they wait for someone outside [...]
Vinod was a rich and influential man who belonged to the high caste in India. Vinod considered Christians untouchable and of a lower caste. The Christians were afraid of him because he often used his power and wealth to mistreat [...]
More than one in five adults in the Democratic Republic of Congo cannot read. In the remote villages where Reconciled World focuses its work, these rates can be even higher. This has a huge impact on people’s ability to do [...]
There was a kind hearted pastor in Nepal who felt compassion for the suffering of those around him. But he believed his role as a pastor was only to care for those in his church. With his own lack of [...]
In the village of Muluma Musulu, in the DR Congo, poverty and wrong beliefs about gender have had devastating consequences. Like in many other places, people believe that women belong at home, so women and girls rarely have opportunities for [...]
Churches in Bangladesh face significant challenges from both poverty and tension with the majority Muslim population. Although most believers know that God’s word says to “love your neighbor as yourself,” they think this commandment is for other people—those with more [...]
