Stories

Joe and Susie

Glimpses of God are everywhere – in the small actions of churches loving neighbors, speaking out against violence, loving the differently abled. They appear in amazing acts of culture change when one lesson changes the way that a community looks [...]

By |2019-05-23T15:35:45-05:00February 15th, 2016|Categories: Stories, Wholistic Development Center, Story Library|Tags: |

The God Road

This story comes from our TCT program in Southeast Asia. We love glimpsing the way God can fulfill His promise to lift up those who humble themselves. Tasks like creating dirt roads or cleaning up garbage can be pretty humbling. [...]

By |2019-05-23T15:35:54-05:00January 11th, 2016|Categories: Stories, Truth Centered Transformation, Story Library|Tags: , |

Glimpses of Hope in the Elimination of Violence Against Women

For some crazy reason my latest relaxation reading has been biographies written by women about their lives in some of the more difficult nations in the world. Just in case anyone’s wondering, it’s not great relaxation reading. On the plus [...]

By |2015-11-23T05:30:24-05:00November 23rd, 2015|Categories: Programs, Stories, From the Directors|Tags: |

How God Provides

One of the things that we believe God has spoken loudly and clearly to us about is local fund raising. The typical international model is: get the money from the richest places and do the work in the poorest places. [...]

By |2017-09-18T19:23:17-05:00November 2nd, 2015|Categories: Stories, Truth Centered Transformation, Mobilizing Local Resources|Tags: |

Introducing the Great Exchange

Is it possible to change a whole industry? How about a multi-billion dollar industry? That’s the question that The Great Exchange is asking. Can we change the world of Microfinance? Now, most people think of Microfinance as being an industry [...]

By |2015-10-15T05:30:43-05:00October 15th, 2015|Categories: Stories, The Great Exchange|Tags: , |

WDC Graduate Stories

Our Wholistic Development Center (WDC) is welcoming a new group of incoming students this month. Every two years, WDC selects twenty-eight young adults to live together on campus, study a vocation and commit to an intensive truth-centered discipleship course. These [...]

By |2019-05-23T15:37:30-05:00August 10th, 2015|Categories: Stories, Wholistic Development Center, Story Library|

The Power of Small Wins

We’ve made it to part four of the book. I, for one, am completely thrilled that Brian Fikkert and Steve Corbett added this section. If you only have the first edition then it’s worth getting the second edition to get [...]

By |2015-07-23T05:30:40-05:00July 23rd, 2015|Categories: Stories, Learn and Apply, Truth Centered Transformation|Tags: |

Mary’s Story: From Outlaw to Minister

Chapter 8 of When Helping Hurts begins to look at how we can effectively engage with people who are experiencing poverty in North America. Fikkert points out: For the first time in history, more poor people live in the suburbs [...]

By |2015-07-20T05:30:40-05:00July 20th, 2015|Categories: Stories, Learn and Apply|Tags: |
Reconciled World