A Mother’s New Hope
“Ashish Center is a light house,” says Rana, a mother of a child who attends the Ashish Center. Rana had been on suicide watch for nearly a year, falling into depression because of the stress and pressure of living with [...]
Learning to Value Daughters
For the members of a rural community church, which mainly consists of new believers, valuing sons more than daughters was normal. When pressed to allow their daughters to attend school, parents would explain, “Why spend money on educating a daughter [...]
Out of Debt
One of the key topics in our sixth TCT training module is encouraging people to get out of debt. Almost everyone has large amounts of debt, and the interest they pay on this debt plays a significant role in keeping [...]
Rebuilding Bridges
In one year, two major storms hit the areas where we work. Many of the churches’ projects (their Acts of Love) were damaged or destroyed—houses, bridges and roads. It was heartbreaking to see all their efforts ruined. Yet God had [...]
The Drunken Pastor
Putting your faith in Jesus Christ should have a profound impact on every decision, behavior, and aspect of your life. However, this was not true for one pastor we worked with. Though he had accepted Christ, he had not surrendered [...]
How TCT Began
This story is not really about us, or what we did, but about God and what He did. In 1996, I began working with Food for the Hungry, whose vision is to “end physical and spiritual hungers worldwide.” An audacious [...]
Filling a Pond
After finishing the first training, I challenged one church to do a seed project addressing the most vulnerable, but reminded them that it should be a simple thing. The church members decided to fill a water pond that is no [...]
Loving a Needy Family
In one community, there was a family that was so poor that they couldn’t provide for their own basic needs. They didn’t have a latrine, or toilet, as many others have in the area. After the first TCT Training, the [...]
Art Helps an Orphan Tell Her Story
Rinky is ten years old and lives in a shelter for girls rescued from difficult situations in slums around the city. She participated in one of our half-day workshops for at-risk girls. The girls were guided to create art work [...]
Art Speaks for the Unborn
When a group of birth attendants viewed an exhibition of works produced on the issue of sex-selective abortion, a growing issue in Asia, their critical comment was, “We couldn’t help but feel a very pro-life message here.” They went on, [...]