How to Have Long-term Impact
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.
See Partnership In Action
Mars Hill Church in Mobile, Alabama went to Masatepe, Nicaragua to listen first. A farm, a recovery center and local pastors running the work show what that partnership built, even through 2018’s unrest.
A Blueprint for Community Transformation
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.
Getting People in the Same Room
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.
The Long Work
A One Collective engineer came to Central Asia to show women another path, and found water projects only reached men. How parallel women’s and men’s projects, and plenty of mistakes, are changing families.
Change-Maker
Libbie spent her life next to Chibolya, Zambia, and wanted a place where people could know God and learn to provide for themselves. She died in April 2022; the young women she helped carry on her work.
Empowering Communities for Exponential Change
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.
A Vision for Sustainable Change
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.
Seeing What’s Possible Through the Ways of Jesus
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.
The Spark that Creates Lasting Change
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.
Lasting Change in the Lives of the Oppressed
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.
“We Believe in What You Do”
Diane and Bill Campbell visited Cambridge, South Africa to see what their giving had done. Why they shifted from supporting a worker to funding Catalysts who draw out gifts already in the community.
Shared Vision & Sustainable Ministry
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.
Listening to Local Leaders
Leaders in Masatepe, Nicaragua asked what Jesus would do as mayor of their town. Beto’s Coffee Co, built with artisan Don Beto Flores, is one answer: a social enterprise that grew from a few jobs to national renown.