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The Power of Being Valuable
Excellence is when I am so valuable that my employer does not want to be without me. It's that simple. I add value. I do not need to be monitored because I self-govern. I am on time because I am professional. I am good with customers because I am always on the job...
A Changed Worldview, a Changed Life
The Poverty Mindset says, “I am poor, I will always be poor, nothing is going to change!” The consequence of this devastating mindset that we see so often is, “Each day, I watch the sun come up and each day I watch the sun go down. Doing nothing, watching TV -...
What is Possible?
Just recently we started working with a group of young people in KZN, South Africa. All of them grew up in child-headed homes. In other words, as kids, they lost their parents through TB or HIV and did not receive any shelter or support, in fact, they just had to...
What is the Problem?
Our nation and our continent is in trouble. We are teetering on the brink. So many problems and so much poverty. To many, life is hopeless. Sometimes we even make choices that rob us of hope. But at the end of the day, God remains the same, constant, never-changing,...
Transformed by the God of Business and Abundant Life
Carlos and Rebeca have been in business together for about ten years. Before COVID restrictions, they owned several shoe factories and ran shoe outlet stores in Leon, a city known as the leather capital of Mexico (some even say of the world)! However, they did not...
From Loss to a Transformed Life
When Ruth moved 6 hours from her hometown to the city of Saltillo, Mexico, she was broken. She was moving from a marriage that shattered after a pregnancy that she and her husband had been advised to terminate because of significant disabilities. She was determined...
W4AL opens the gates to employment for Everlasting Mbedzi
Everlasting Mbedzi is 32 years old and originally from Limpopo. After having to leave university in his final year due to lack of funding, Everlasting went to visit an uncle in Port Elizabeth who told him about WORK 4 A LIVING. He completed the WORK 4 A LIVING Job...
A life changed in a moment
My name is Manqoba Comfort Ngubane. I was raised by my grandmother in dire poverty, and because of this I became a bitter and angry child. My mother passed on when I was young and my father lived with another partner and did not give me the attention I needed, or...
Unjustly imprisoned at age 13, yet not destroyed: A victor’s story
This is Ajabu Kalimbiro’s testimony - a story of hope and redemption! It started in the most desperate circumstances imaginable. Yet looking back, God’s saving hand was always present - a river of grace flowing through this young man’s life. The circumstances Ajabu...
A grandmother’s legacy: breaking the yoke of poverty thinking in Bizana, South Africa
Few people raised in a Western culture understand what a poverty mindset is, or realise that many communities worldwide still live with this thinking. We see the effects - unemployment, crowded living, squalor and litter, violence and societal ills, hopelessness mixed...