Core Principles

Prayer: Do the Poor Really Need My Help?

Confession time: I am a bleeding heart. As hard as I have worked my entire adult life to understand the root causes of poverty and the best, most biblical ways to relate with vulnerable people, I still want to empty [...]

By |2018-04-30T13:44:55-05:00April 30th, 2018|Categories: Pray, Nurturing Truth & Confronting Lies|

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 [...]

Partnering with Churches: What Does That Really Mean?

Reconciled World is a community of programs that apply biblical truth to brokenness in a wide range of circumstances. We have all committed to the principle of partnering with churches, but that doesn’t mean we all do it perfectly or identically. We are all at different places on the journey. But we are all striving for the same goal–that the church would take its rightful place at the center of God’s transformational plan.

By |2017-10-17T16:35:54-05:00September 19th, 2017|Categories: Core Principles, Partnering With Churches|

Pray: Fatalism

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 [...]

By |2017-09-08T10:12:51-05:00July 4th, 2017|Categories: Pray, Nurturing Truth & Confronting Lies, Truth Centered Transformation|Tags: |

Savings Groups as Transformational Development

In 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 and Kate Marsden [...]

By |2017-09-13T11:16:40-05:00June 20th, 2017|Categories: Stories, Mobilizing Local Resources|Tags: |

Housebuilding: TCT Asia

God is at work through the church. This video tells the story of an Act of Love from a community we work with in Asia. It's an inspiring example of how their church is being obedient to God and loving their [...]

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