Community features let you step into work happening in One Collective communities today. Hear from Catalysts and other leaders about the challenges and milestones of holistic work - and watch what happens when people come together around a vision for change.
In Calacalí, Ecuador, a small church, a retreat center, and a neighborhood have spent fourteen years living alongside one another. This year that shared life started turning into shared work - prayer walks, a youth group, a Bible study, and a church learning to go out to its neighbors.
A handful of men in Chibolya, Zambia started meeting on Thursdays to study Scripture. Two years later they own a shoe cooperative, run a village bank, and are going home to their families. The story of how it happened.
Phil and Debbie Douce spent more than 40 years with vulnerable kids, from foster care in Missouri to street boys and trafficked girls in Quito, Ecuador. Why depth of relationship matters more than scale.
Gabriel Munanjala grew up in Chibolya, Zambia, and trained as a medic with help from One Collective. He explains what that support restored in him, and why poverty is about more than money.
Rachel and Alonso Silva have spent eight years in Santiago, Chile, building trusted friendships with youth in state group homes. Now the government has written their program into its care plans.
In Tulovo, Bulgaria, a teenager asked Sam Jung to teach him piano chords. Not long after, 11 musicians from German, Bulgarian, Roma and Persian backgrounds had recorded an album together.
Papagayo Farm in Los Rios, Nicaragua grows dragon fruit, hosts retreats and employs local farmers. With its leader of five years heading home, the farm is looking for the person to lead what comes next.
Emily, a physical therapist, moved her family to Kenya and helped local leaders name five areas their community wanted to change. Why a maize farm and a sewing ministry now start with discipleship.
After a decade in Masatepe, Nicaragua, much of the work is now locally led. That foundation is opening a new chapter in neighboring Ticuantepe, with Papagayo farm as the base and a Catalyst needed to lead it.
A One Collective couple has spent 14 years in Vietnam, where their son’s Down syndrome showed them how few paths exist for neurodivergent people. How a job program and a coffee shop are changing that.
Andrew Larson, One Collective Catalyst in Athens, Greece, co-founded a network of faith-based groups fighting sexual exploitation. How sharing resources, and earning the government’s trust, made each stronger.
In East London, South Africa, a recycling business started in 2018 now serves 1,000 homes and employs 20 young adults who had no work. Scott Worley on how a Visible Fund grant helped it grow.
Gezim and Leanne returned to his home region of Devoll, Albania, where jobs are scarce and many feel forgotten. Youth work, a teachers’ Bible study and plans for a park show what caring for the left-behind looks like.
In Elgin, Illinois, Catalyst Bobby Jackson and Alex Madrid pull nonprofits, churches and city officials into one plan to end chronic homelessness. Their odd measure of success: serving fewer people each week.
In Chibolya, Zambia, a women’s empowerment program started by Ben and Kristin Choitz is helping women like Sylvia, a single mother of six, build real businesses. A new ministry center is about to multiply it.
In Buffalo City, South Africa, a generation of job scarcity has left young adults disillusioned. Catalyst Scott Worley is piloting entrepreneurial training that starts with mindset, not short-term fixes.
When war sent displaced families into Uzhhorod, Ukraine, Doug Landro’s team had 14 churches and 21 organizations already at the table. How those ties became 18 solar-powered tiny homes and a community center.
Rachel and Alonso Silva coordinate volunteers from 10 churches to mentor young people in state care in Santiago, Chile. Yanira, who entered protection at 12, is beginning to see her own worth.
In central Athens, Greece, Danielle Kelly’s team could not serve every need at once, so they focused on mental health and dignity. How showers, laundry and meals with a local church changed a man named Chet.
In Tulovo, Bulgaria, Catalyst Margie Brown works with Rroma families facing generations of segregation. An after-school program, girls training as hairstylists and Mira’s preschool dream show healing beginning.
Aaron Passmore in Quito, Ecuador on why the work starts with relationship and a safe place to grow, and why no one should be the hero. Healthy people make healthy community, and that community makes more.
Hector Chavez met Catalyst Nancy Donat as a teen in Lowell, a Fresno, California neighborhood with few paths forward. Now he wants to lead the change she started, and she is doing it again in Hidalgo.
In a rural South Asian community where most families cannot afford school, a villager named James suggested beekeeping. Seven farmers trained, hives are multiplying and each new one creates jobs.
In a Middle Eastern city creating half the jobs it needs, Caleb and Jessica launched online business training early when lockdowns loosened startup rules. Sarah, jobless for seven years, now supports her family.
Kimberly was selling drugs at nine and in prostitution at twelve so her sisters could eat. In Quito, Ecuador, she found Debbie’s ministry, and during lockdown she helped deliver food to women no one else remembered.
Doug Landro noticed Roma pastors left out of a prayer breakfast in Uzhhorod, Ukraine. From a trash cleanup to a donated X-ray machine, how one Catalyst’s network grew into an alliance of thirty groups.
Haya fled war in the Middle East and was labeled a refugee everywhere she went, until she reached a One Collective ministry in Europe. Her thank-you shows what your giving means to one person.
In Chibolya, Zambia, an elderly market trader named Libby offered six acres of land to restore hope in her community. How New Hope Farm, and Libby’s care for a young mother named Charity, began.
Pastor George opened his church in Koukaki, Athens to refugees and then did not know what came next. With One Collective, the church now feeds 130 neighbors twice a week and helps young people find work.
When 2018 protests forced American staff out of Masatepe, Nicaragua, Leonel and 25 Nicaraguan colleagues kept every project running. Brandon Weidman on why building local leaders first made that possible.
