We take our “simple is beautiful” thinking everywhere and create a discipleship model that is a huge but “back to the basics” philosophical innovation. Here’s how it works as a disciplemaker: pray for God to show you the right person/people, share a relevant passage of scripture, have them restate it in their own words, have the individual/group make application to the scripture, have the individuals make a commitment to apply that scripture and share it with someone that very week.
Read MoreIf you watched my TEDx, you know I believe our philosophy stems from a deep belief in the potential of rural Africans. Rural individuals are constantly taking the resources they have and leveraging them against the perpetual obstacles they face for personal and communal advancement. I believe that if I prioritize their wants, really believing these wants are aligned with their needs, and obsessing over their experience as clients is how sustainability will be achieved. If we can find a way to give these tenacious and resilient people what they ask for, they’ll find a way to support it and make more of it.
Read MoreHere I’ll unpack a little of the thought work that went into my TEDx talk around the problem in the way we’re using charity and some of my perceptions around what causes it.
Read MorePrometheus was a descendent of the Titans in the stories of the Greek gods. Titans were giant deities, older than the Olympian gods, but who’d been defeated by these more socially sophisticated arrivals.
Read MoreWhen I was 11 my grandfather, who lived in downtown Baltimore, died and it tore my childhood heart apart.
I didn’t know my mom’s dad that well, other than I shared his nose and “barrel chest”, that he made wooden toys for me, and I saw his face every time I ventured into my parents room on an old copper hewed military photograph.
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