I remember the first time I heard the phrase "ideas have consequences." It’s a powerful idea, but left me initially skeptical. If true, it changes everything. Much of my work in development up until then had been focused on programs [...]
Reconciled World is officially one year old. Happy birthday to us! It’s been a fantastic year. A year that we have known and experienced so much of God’s favour. We expanded programs, identified new partners, started new programs and have [...]
I shared once before about a pastor’s wife who was doing abortions as a way to show God’s love to her community. Despite the many church-based trainings that she had been to, she had no idea that what she was [...]
God gave us our house. Really. My ownership of our current house is a set of miracles that is hard to believe. It started from the day we decided to sell our old apartment. We looked at the calendar and [...]
I’ve just returned from a two month trip to North America. It was a great trip, although visiting 16 cities in that time frame is EXHAUSTING. Happy to be home to recover. One of the things that my husband and [...]
This is Autism Awareness Month. And although I lead an organization with an amazing center for autistic children, I confess that I am mostly clueless when it comes to supporting people with autism. I’ve only interacted with a few people [...]
I’ve seen transformation – communities completely move out of poverty. Physical, spiritual, social and mental transformation. The story is here, and more are here. If there is anything my years have taught me it’s that God is able. God is [...]
Tomorrow we celebrate International Women’s Day. To mark that occasion we are planning to spend the rest of the month blogging about challenges facing women and girls around the world and look at the hope and healing God is raising [...]
In their best selling book, When Helping Hurts, Brian Fikkert and Steve Corbett reminded us that sometimes our best intentions to help don’t quite achieve the results we desire. In fact, sometimes our efforts to help can actually hurt. For [...]
