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.
Innovative Solutions that Create Lasting Change
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.
Creating Opportunity When the Need is Great
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.
Opening the Door for Lasting Change
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.
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 Difference You Make Around the World
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.
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.
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.
Tables Instead of Walls
In one of Fresno, California’s poorest neighborhoods, youth whose parents fear deportation hosted a Love Feast and invited the police captain. Nancy Donat on choosing a table over a wall.