Fixing Roads in Burkina Faso
"We as the church, we cannot say that we love people without showing fruit. We want our love to be visible." Here is a story of how churches in Burkina Faso are showing God's love to their community.
WDC Class of 2019
The Wholistic Development Center (WDC) is preparing for graduation! Spring commencement is an exciting time for time for high school and university students around the world. But for the students of WDC, graduation is extra-special. In the country where WDC [...]
Clean Water: Uganda Act of Love
Clean water—it’s a basic need and, therefore, one of the most distressing problems in the Majority World. We’ve all heard the stories: girls who ought to be in school spend hours a day carrying jerry cans for miles to [...]
Living Out the Gospel….stories from Uganda
We recently received a multitude of stories from partner churches who are studying TCT through Food for the Hungry in Uganda. I’ve spent a good chunk of my day reading reports of hundreds of Christians in dozens of churches [...]
God Will Be Glorified: A Community Gets Water
"There’s a water problem in the community. We have a bore well, but there is no proper storage tank. So the people are suffering because when the motor is on, the people are leaving to their works. When they come back from works, the motor is off, the power cut is there...So they thought if you build a water tank for the storage...the water will be stored in the tank, so the people can use the water at any time"
Out From Idol Worship
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 [...]
TCT – Does it Work?
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The Church is Capable
For years the church members of Tu Pi village had waited for someone to come help them. They were extremely poor—at least three months a year they had to scavenge for food. The village was a three-hour walk from the [...]