Editor's Note: You can hear Grace Dyrness present in person at the 2017 SATtalks, Oct. 19 & 20 in Kansas City. When I was living in the Philippines and working on a Master’s degree in Urban Anthropology, I decided to [...]
He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God? (Micah 6:8) To do righteousness and justice [...]
Imagine a community where it is said, "there are no needy among us." Imagine a community that addresses the injustice of poverty so strategically that “there are no needy among us.” Imagine the Body of Christ in a community [...]
Albert Einstein once said, “We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.” The problem? So much of our well-intended efforts to help the poor have left them worse off in [...]
Dr. Florence Muindi, founder and President of Life In Abundance (LIA) and a 2016 SATtalk Presenter shares some thoughts on the value of SATtalks and what it means to rub shoulders for a couple of days with others who believe [...]
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Ministries that approach their work in a holistic way find that it fosters dignity and a deep willingness for people to step up to the challenge. A holistic approach to community development assumes a set of “catalytic” areas which help [...]
Dr. Florence Muindi, Founder and President of Life in Abundance, reveals her initial mistakes in development and how it brought about a vital change in strategy. In this SAT talk she shares LIA's new model and findings of an independent [...]
How do you transition from implementing a non-profit program in underserved contexts to equipping the local Church to own, lead and grow a vibrant and sustained ministry? At HOPE International, we’re learning that communities flourish when we ask ourselves, our Church [...]
We do more than charity. We do opportunity because we believe local men and women are the key to their own solutions out of poverty. Water4 exists to empower local communities to transform themselves and solve their own crisis. We [...]
