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The podcast and community for globally minded disciples seeking God's justice, mercy and shalom throughout the world.
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Peter Greer and Ryan Skoog - Leading From Your Knees
Global nonprofits are notorious doers, always thinking, planning and taking action. In all of our intentionality for programs and justice endeavors, are we being equally intentional to pray? Peter Greer is back on the show, along with new friend Ryan Skoog, to share about the new book that they wrote (along with Cameron Doolittle) called Lead with Prayer. This is a conversation for everyone, because without God's intervention, nothing would happen anyway. And here's the secret that our guests share with us, "even better than answered prayer, is the very presence of God." Let's think, let's do, but let's also pray.
Resources and Links from the show
Join us for the first ever CarePortal Conference
Lead With Prayer Website (Includes Free Prayer Tools)
Echo Prayer App
Conversation Notes
4:25 - Ryan’s background in entrepreneurship and fundraising 9:55 - Connection of themes between The Gift of Disillusionment and Lead with Prayer 13:10 - The impact of the global church on our lives and taking the Gospel locally and to the ends of the earth 17:00 - Why is prayer so overlooked within Christian nonprofits. Peter asks, “Do we think that we have more to do than Jesus?” 22:35 - Diving into the research of different leaders around the world and what their prayer lives look like 26:35 - Leaders have a friendship first approach to their prayer lives 30:03 - It requires intentionality to set up prayer rhythms both personally and as an organizational 37:50 - The importance of leaders to repent and avoid the common story of Christian leaders that fall from grace 44:20 - Stories of people’s prayer lives -
Chrina Henson - Pioneering Family Care in the Philippines
In honor of the World Without Orphans Global Forum and in honor of awesome work being done in the Philippines, we've got Chrina Cuna Henson joining the show. Chrina runs the Manila-based organization Generations-Home and talks with Brandon Stiver and Phil Darke about what it's like to promote foster care and adoption in the Philippines. We discuss the reality of violence against children and the pervasive online sexual exploitation of children in the country and learn how Generations-Home is promoting the care and protection of Filipino children.
Resources and Links from the Show
Join us for the first ever CarePortal Conference
Generations-Home Website
"Constance" by Mr. J Medeiros (Music Video)
Conversation Notes
2:30 What’s great about the World Without Orphans Global Forum 7:50 About Generations Home and their work in the Philippines 10:15 How God led Chrina from personal tragedy into running a nonprofit focused on orphans and vulnerable children 15:00 Overview of orphanhood and childhood vulnerability in the Philippines including online sexual exploitation of children 22:42 Starting a church based, family focused movement in an orphanage and exploitation heavy context 34:35 The art of being gracious with people that have good intentions that are just trying to do what they think is best 39:30 Foster care and adoption in the Philippines 46:10 Getting the local church involved with vulnerable children and families 50:35 Being an OVC organization that is based financially in Asia rather than the West 55:53 Embracing our own brokenness as we faithfully serve vulnerable communities -
El Salvador, Localization, UNRWA and Bono (February 3+1)
In this 3+1 episode, we're catching up on some global stories that you might have missed and have a recommendation of the pop variety. We're continuing last month's conversation on elections by looking at El Salvador, talking through localization efforts in global development, the scandal surrounding UNRWA-Hamas and then get Brandon's take on Bono's recent biography, Surrender. Dr. Greg Burch of Multnomah University joins Brandon Stiver and Phil Darke for the conversation.
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Resources and Links from the show
Foreign Policy : What Bukele's Rise Means for the Region
World Relief : Three Trends We're Seeing in Global Development in 2024
USAID : Communicating through a Localization Lens
The Media Line : Hamas Sacrifices Gaza Children, and UNRWA Complicit in Crimes
Bridgely
The Locust Effect by Gary Haugen and Victor Boutros
God of the Empty-Handed by Jayukumar Christian
Conversation Notes
2:12 - Discussion on Christian Higher ed 8:23 - Considering security, freedom, violence and democracy as El Salvador goes through changes and the leadership of Nayib Bukele 22:00 - Why even bother bringing politics into the podcast conversation? 26:10 - Trends in global development, localization and the place for outsiders 40:30 - Violence against children in Israel-Palestine and the Hamas-UNRWA reports 52:34 - Surrender by Bono and reflections on the celebrity activist
Theme music Kirk Osamayo. Free Music Archive, CC BY License -
Justin Narducci - Heal the Sick, Proclaim the Kingdom
What does it look like to meet the needs of very vulnerable people in the face of glaring global disparity? What does it look like to bring God's Kingdom through improving access to healthcare in the Global South? These are the questions we're looking at today as we dive into conversation with CEO of CURE International, Justin Narducci. Justin and his team CURE are distinctly rooted in Luke 9:2 where Jesus commissioned His disciples to proclaim the Kingdom of God and heal the sick. For them that means running hospitals in eight countries, providing over 330,000 surgeries and sharing the gospel with 1.5 million people. We get to learn from their experience in this episode of the podcast.
Resources and Links from the show
Cure International Website
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Conversation Notes
1:40 - Update on Brandon’s work with CarePortal 4:05 - Think Global becoming Think Global, Do Justice 9:50 - The work of Cure Intl. and how God led Justin into the global nonprofit space 12:00 - How scripture points us towards caring for people both locally and globally regardless of ethnicity and upbringing 13:20 - The history and the founding of CURE to meet healthcare and spiritual needs of vulnerable children and communities 15:20 - The environment in which CURE is working and the harsh realities for families and children 21:20 - The feelings of a parent whose child is in need of serious medical care 25:40 - The imperative for CURE to provide healthcare to vulnerable children specifically 29:30 - Addressing the tremendous disparity when looking at healthcare in Africa versus other areas of the world 33:15 - Promoting sustainability and professional development through CURE’s hospitals and partnerships 39:00 - How should we think about scaling solutions especially in the face of such tremendous needs throughout the world 45:24 - Seeing an organization grow from the founder to subsequent executives without mission creep 48:50 - Incorporating Christian ministry care with the medical care to heal the sick and proclaim the Kingdom of God 53:35 - The importance of having a specialized skill that you can transfer and train others in
Podcast music by Kirk Osamayo. Free Music Archive, CC BY License -
Dr. Forrest Inslee - Caring for Creation
You cannot have a conversation around global issues without considering the state of the earth itself. We are talking today with educator, author and climate advocate Dr. Forrest Inslee to learn, "what on earth is happening with the earth?" Dr. Inslee brings a distinctly Christian viewpoint to the conversation as we consider the damage being done to the environment and how Christians that are engaging vulnerable communities around the world have a role to play in supporting not just people, but all of God's creation.
Resources and Links from the show
Earthkeepers Podcast
Re-imagining Short Term Missions
Saving Us: A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World by Katharine Hayhoe
Agrarian Spirit: Cultivating Faith, Community, and the Land by Norman Wirzba
Conversation Notes
7:10 - Remembering that God loves all ethnicities and nationalities the same and Jesus making us into family 10:15 - Blood relation, family and adoption in Turkey 15:15 - A snapshot of climate change, extreme weather, ecosystem loss and how a Christian should think through these realities 19:45 - The link between poverty and ecological degradation 23:40 - Christians believe that people matter most, but is it the case that people are all that matters. 27:57 - The way that people divide even in the midst of having something they could agree on (and also Parks and Rec) 34:45 - Is there a role for technology to solve our problems or is that just magic thinking that won’t bear enough fruit 38:40 - Urbanization is a historic long term trend and how can people do something to take action 46:15 - The need to reimagine how we do short term missions 52:00 - Promising practices in short term missions and cross-cultural ministry 57:45 - Practicing humility and learning as we engage in justice work -
Sudan, Elections, USAID and MEAL [January 3+1]
In our first ever 3+1 episode, we're catching up on some global stories that you might have missed. We're talking about the war going on in Sudan, elections throughout the world, USAID waste and then learn of a great recommendation from our guest on developing monitoring and evaluation.
Conversation Notes
2:10 - Introduction to the 3+1 format and those that are in the conversation today 6:35 - The war in Sudan, the current situation, the history, the displacement, the genocide 11:35 - The economy of attention, why do we hear about certain problems or conflicts and not others 20:40 - Countries representing half of the world’s population are heading to the polls this year. 25:10 - Legitimacy of the elections in question and walking the line between perception and reality 30:02 - What is the role of the church in civic participation? 36:10 - USAID’s biggest contract in history goes a bit sour 44:50 - Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning resource for development professionals. Super helpful guide and directed course to equip you for this work. Resources and Links from the Show
The Guardian : ‘Why are they forgetting about us?’: Sudan watches allies turn from war to aid Ukraine and Gaza
Politico : The global elections Washington should be watching in 2024
Devex : 'Too big to fail': How USAID's $9.5B supply chain vision unraveled
MEAL DPro: Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning for Development Professionals
Sometimes in April Movie
The White Man's Burden by William Easterly
Think Orphan's Refugee Crisis Series
Theme music : Standing in the Rain by Kirk Osamayo. Free Music Archive, CC BY License
Customer Reviews
Astute analysis of global development
As someone working in the realm of caring for orphaned and vulnerable children, this podcast has been a godsend. As the show has moved into discussing global development more broadly, the content has been no less engaging and insightful. If you enjoy learning about real issues facing global development through a Christian lens and don’t want to be bogged down with pat, political profferings, you have come to the right place. Keep up the great work team!
A Primer and a Companion
This podcast helped me understand the OVC sector as I started moving into it. I was introduced to the multifaceted nature of the struggles and successes facing individuals and organizations in helpful ways.
As I’ve continued in the sector, I regularly return to the podcast to hear what other’s are doing in their programs and how they are navigating complexity.
The podcast is a great primer and a terrific companion for anyone who wants to learn how to elevate the way the world cares for orphans and vulnerable children.
Definitely Worth a Listen!!
The Think Orphan Podcast is incredibly informative, conversational and thoughtful in the way they approached tough subjects. There was a wide variety of topics talked about by people who are well informed and have done a lot of work with orphans and vulnerable children. This is a great resource to learn more about organizations who are working to alleviate this problem and who will give helpful opinions and resources on how we can take tangible steps to help with this issue! Definitely is a humbling podcast and makes me recognize that the world is far bigger than just me :) thankful for this resource!