This is what happens when two young women step out of their comfort zones.
Why Alongsiders is telling narratives of poverty differently.
Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world.
Opening gates for excluded children...
Encouragement starts with a relationship.
An ancient Chinese proverb teaches us that, “A crisis is an opportunity riding the dangerous wind.”
Can we put aside the burden and distraction of being big and living large?
We all love the part where Jesus says, "Let the children come to me." It's a comforting line, and a good passage for a devotional, but do you ever wonder what it has to do with getting things done in mission/ministry?
Change starts with this generation. But here's what we need to know when there are set-backs.
Too often foreign organizations use money to move their agendas forward. Here's why that's a problem.
I went to a rural church to follow-up with a group of Alongsiders, and I asked them how they chose their little brothers and sisters from all the children in the community. One of the young women started to cry as she answered...
"I want to work in Korea", he said
The principles we draw on to build resilience are useful for every parent, and any person working with children.
Last week a little brother escaped a potentially dangerous situation...
What does it take to create a comic book simple enough for a semi-literate child to understand, but profound enough to spark change in that child's life?
Grassroots leaders in Cambodia are using an innovative approach to training...
Keeping a movement growing and thriving is not an easy task. But these two leaders have figured some things out...
There are extraordinary people hidden just out of sight at the margins of society.
You'll be encouraged to see the significant progress a group of Alongsiders and their little brothers and sisters have made after four months...
How do we change? This year many resolutions will fail because we lack an answer for this question, so here's a simple, encouraging lesson from a young woman in Cambodia.
