In the second half of chapter 11 of When Helping Hurts, the authors give some practical advice for effectively partnering with communities in the majority world. We love their suggestions. We asked our friend Celeste Brown de Mercado to add [...]
In chapter 4 of When Helping Hurts, Brian Fikkert writes, “Development is not done to people or for people, but with people.” He talks a lot about savings groups as an example of good “with” type development. Our friends John [...]
John Beckett is a Christ follower, business leader, and author of Loving Monday and Mastering Monday. This month, as we reflect on our Core Value: integrating physical and spiritual, we asked John for permission to repost some of his writings on integration [...]
When we are invited into a new area to teach the TCT program, we try to identify the key lies that hold communities in poverty. For one reason or another, one of the lies that we often find is that [...]
For several weeks in the month of May our blog will be wrestling with one of the 7 core principles of Reconciled World: Integrating Physical & Spiritual. To begin we would like to share a post from friend and Reconciled World [...]
The following is part 2 of a two part blog series originally posted on Elim Christian Services blog. You can read part 1 here. Two weeks ago, I posted a personal perspective on God’s purpose in disability. In it, I [...]
In His Image regularly collaborates with and learns from Elim Christian Services here in the U.S. We love their work and their heart for the differently-abled. The following are reflections from Elim on the biblical worldview of disabilities. This article originally appeared [...]
This blog was written by Ellen Stumbo. It was posted to her site (ellenstumbo.com) on April 4, 2014. You can view the original post here. One of the greatest passions in my life is to see the Church embrace adults and [...]
Thank you to Matt FritzMiller for sharing this story of his own journey of “autism awareness.” We hope it inspires you to seek out opportunities for relationship with someone with ASD. When I first started teaching 12 years ago I [...]
I John 4:12 “No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.” 30,000…what a huge number! Does it pertain to the cost of a car, [...]
