Reflections Blog

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Commandments

The Whole Gospel

The Pharisees were always looking at how they could trap Jesus: “Hearing that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, the Pharisees got together. One of them, an expert in the law, tested him with this question:” 

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Poverty

Poverty and the Poor

Poverty is an important word for any relief and development organization. After all, we exist in response to the material poverty of our time. However, poverty tends to be one of those words, whose meaning, we tend to take for granted. After all, everyone knows what poverty is; we see its images on TV or hear its stories.

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Missions

Sustainability

As the founding director of an NGO working among the poor in the Philippines, I have recently been thinking about long-term sustainability. Will the work we have started, Hands of Hope Faith Academy, the churches planted etc, have the continued resources to function and grow long after we have gone?

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