Fixing Roads in Burkina Faso
"We as the church, we cannot say that we love people without showing fruit. We want our love to be visible." Here is a story of how churches in Burkina Faso are showing God's love to their community.
Churches are Transforming DRC
Churches in DRC are rising up to love their communities in so many ways! We’ve put together a short video (3:52) celebrating how God is at work in this beautiful country.
Clean Water: Uganda Act of Love
Clean water—it’s a basic need and, therefore, one of the most distressing problems in the Majority World. We’ve all heard the stories: girls who ought to be in school spend hours a day carrying jerry cans for miles to [...]
We Rise Together: Women Supporting Women
This blog was originally posted in March 2017. Of all the different issues we could talk about as we focus on women this month, the one that keeps coming to my mind is the way we women think of ourselves [...]
God Will Be Glorified: A Community Gets Water
"There’s a water problem in the community. We have a bore well, but there is no proper storage tank. So the people are suffering because when the motor is on, the people are leaving to their works. When they come back from works, the motor is off, the power cut is there...So they thought if you build a water tank for the storage...the water will be stored in the tank, so the people can use the water at any time"
Rooted and Built up in Him
Be a man challenge: Real men don’t beat their wives. Real men act respectfully with women. Real men help around the house. Real men don’t make family decisions without discussing it with their wives. Are you a real man? The [...]
Prayer: Ethnic Violence & Genocide
But the truth is that genocide by no means happens suddenly. It is rather like a slow-growing cancer. We often don’t recognize the early symptoms, and sometimes we just don’t want to. Like cancer, genocide grows in stages. It begins simply with the way we start to classify ourselves in contrast to other groups, and then discriminate, persecute, and eventually try to eliminate them.
Prayer: Orphans
The first time I watched the movie Lion, I was sitting on a plane between my two kids, on our way from India to the U.S. I was utterly drawn in, recognizing in so many scenes the world I was just [...]
Founder’s Story
Poverty is complex. It didn’t take me long to learn that. As a young development worker, I was involved in doing all the usual programs—vocational training, micro-enterprise loans, school building. However, the results weren’t exactly breathtaking. A few people [...]