Families For Africa

The Challenges of Change in Africa
22 September, 2009
By Steve Addison

So do rapidly expanding church planting movements grow disciples or just gather crowds?
Let’s take a look at what happened in Rwanda. Here’s the email traffic with David Watson. . .
Hi David
I noticed on your blog that you’ve been to Rwanda.
I’ve had some thoughtful mission leaders [...]

The following article by atheist Matthew Parris, a columnist for the TIMESONLINE, describes his view of how Christianity is critical to African development. The article illustrates the contagious nature of a Christianity that blends proclamation and demonstration–that calls for submission to a King and works for the building of his Kingdom. — Jay
From The Times

December [...]

” Some areas of “social impact” should have NO handouts, in fact they can stifle change, others need some “capacity building” = teaching to fish for free, and others just need fish because if they don’t eat today they’ll die.”
– Pete Bremberg

THIRST

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Here a link to one Families for Africa’s strategy to tap into this miracle.

Where the Hell is Matt? (2008) from Matthew Harding on Vimeo.

Chris and Lisa have a big dream. Chk out their latest post and listen to his message. Amazing.

Transformational Development Conference
Food for the Hungry is sponsoring a conference at George Fox University on August 14-16. Would love to attend, but can’t right now. Can someone else go and blog here on what they’ve learned? As I read thru the description of the term “transformational development,” I found it related to our vision [...]