How to use Sustainable Livelihood & Agriculture for God's glory

Dear friend,

Thanks for the chance to share what I am doing.

There are a lot of places that missionaries can go with sustainable livelihood and agriculture. Both of these places can do a lot of good things in the development arena. What I like about agriculture and sustainable livelihood is that we can help the pastor, church, and community address common goals and issues over a period of time.

I understand the challenges we face with sustainable livelihood and agriculture. But what I like about these models is they provide an opportunity to work side by side with the pastor, church, and community toward a common good. When that happens, relationship begins to happen and trust forms. If success happens, and I am fully committed to that, then that is a great thing. If it doesn't happen, we commiserate together, go back to the drawing board and try again. Fail and succeed together over time and a real relationship develops. In the course of that, we can share our faith, our pastors and church leaders can share their faith, and in God's timing these people will come to the Lord, And the people will learn how to put food in their stomach, and money in their pockets. This is not a quick fix, or get rich quick scheme. The nice thing about this is that it sets the stage for building relationship, pursuing a common goal, and time for the Holy Spirit to move in the community.

Take care and God bless,

Phil