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 [...]
If you’re anything like me, it’s super easy to get caught up in all of the injustice, heartbreak, and scary things in our world. We can start to live our lives in anger, fear, or self-protection. My friend called me [...]
Ask just about any parent anywhere in the world and they’ll tell you: the teen years are tough. There is something uniquely challenging about helping a person transition from childhood to adulthood. I’m not quite there yet as a parent, [...]
The life and development of self-help groups is, in many ways, similar to those of a mango tree. You plant a small seed in the soil, water it, nurture it, and faithfully attend to the sapling with the hope of [...]
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 [...]
In a few of the slum communities where Rahham has been working, the new churches have been focusing on prayer and fasting. Groups meet every day to pray. When they began this prayer focus in January 2017, the prayer requests [...]
We began Truth Centered Transformation (TCT) nearly 15 years ago. It is a five-year church training program with three goals: 1) Glorify God, 2) Strengthen the church, and 3) see communities move out of poverty. We were stunned when we [...]
Just one more ooey-gooey sugar-glazed donut! One last episode of Downton Abbey tonight (errr…this morning). One more time checking Facebook, just to make sure I don’t miss anything important. We know overdoing these things is not healthy, but it seems [...]
I’ve just spent a month in Africa teaching the TCT program. One of the big things we look at during trainings are the beliefs that keep people locked in poverty. There are many. The South Sudanese team shared some really [...]
