“Asset Based Community Development (ABCD) is a large and growing movement that considers local assets as the primary building blocks of sustainable community development. Building on the skills of local residents, the power of local associations, and the supportive functions of local...

I got very excited when I read these words in a post titled, On Planting Churches That Do Not Cannibalize: The Luke 10 Project, by David Fitch: Let’s stop funding church plants (has anyone noticed it ain’t working?) and fund missionaries here in North America. We need to seed fresh...

I often have people get really excited about the work of Embrace Richmond.  They say to me, “I love you guys because you are going beyond ‘giving out fish’ and are ‘teaching people to fish.’” To which I reply, “No, we are actually going beyond teaching people to fish and...