Dear Oasis Friend,
Your partnership with Oasis is at work in Africa. Recently, WorldRenew hosted a training based on Oasis’s Helping Without Hurting in Africa, by Jonny Kyazze and Anthony Sytsma.
At this training, church leaders were taught to apply the book’s eye-opening principles, ensuring that their compassionate outreach was positively impacting their local communities.
Naomi Makau, a development worker, explained that, “if someone comes in and 100% intervenes in your issues, then it becomes their intervention… but by taking ownership, then I know that I’m part of it and I want to sustain it, because I put in resources."
Helping Without Hurting in Africa teaches that in order to ensure that change will be pervasive and long-term, the community must be given a chance to contribute. Empowering individuals to work for (and desire) their own transformation is much more effective than imposing change on them externally.
As Pastor David Kangangi put it, “each one of the people we serve and the people we minister to have different abilities, and it is only that their abilities need to be ignited.”
By teaching the principles of this groundbreaking book, the foundation for the future of effective ministry in Africa is in progress.