What’s New?

Post a Comment » Written on December 21st, 2009     
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Periodically we will be posting updates on what’s new with CWR. We have had several new items we want to draw your attention to today.

New Children’s Service Project: Bed Nets for Life

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The new Children’s Service Project materials are …

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Transformation of the Poor and the Non-Poor

Post a Comment » Written on December 16th, 2009     
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“Shouldn’t we expect that those who receive will eventually become givers?” This was a comment made by a young leader in the Evangelical Covenant Church of Kenya in October when we were discussing principles of transformational community development.

We sometimes …

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Breaking Out!

Post a Comment » Written on December 1st, 2009     
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Last week Ronna and I visited the Deonar Landfill in Mumbai, one of the largest dumps in Asia. Everyday 1200 trucks dump 6000 tons of garbage in this 320 acre dump. Deonar is the home and worksite of thousands of …

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Empowered for What?

Post a Comment » Written on November 25th, 2009     
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For the past two days Ronna and I have visited a CWR program in Gujarat State in India among tribal people in the forests. After landing at Mumbai airport, we drove for nearly eight hours to the beautiful mountains and …

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Dave from Bangladesh

Post a Comment » Written on November 22nd, 2009     
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I’m currently traveling in Bangladesh visiting two of our CWR partners. While serving as the regional coordinator for Asia with Covenant World Mission I visited Bangladesh six or seven times. I am always struck by several things.  First is the …

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