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.

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 [...]

“Go to the people. Live with them. Learn from them. Love them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. But with the best leaders, when the work is done, the task accomplished, the people will say “We have done this ourselves”.” – Lao Tzu