Vulnerability and Sustainability

This week we are diving deeper into our principles of good development. It’s very easy to talk about best practice and ‘good principles’ but what determines best practice? While we often like to talk about best practice as if it is just the logical consequence of evidence and research, we need to acknowledge that best practice is also shaped by our values - both our personal values and our cultural values. It is our values and assumptions that determine consciously or unconsciously, what evidence we are going to collect after all.

It was an honour then to be asked to write a piece for Eternity News, Australia’s largest religious newspaper, about vulnerable missions and how my faith shapes my approach to development and missions. You can have a read here:

The vulnerability that God chose to connect with his people

“The very God who breathed life into dust, who created beauty out of nothing, who parted the Red Sea and set the earth spinning, chose to rely on the very people he had come to save, in order to be in relationship with them and to show his heart and character.”

Next Monday, you are invited to join Mony, Saray and I as we take on our first principle in our series. We would love to have you join the conversation. You can register here: https://forms.gle/eTtTqswVmipUZwWN6

I look forward to digging deeper into these development principles with you.

Stacie