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How We Began | Our Motivations
You are within the "About Us" section of our website, but we want to make it clear that it's not about us. ("It" being the overall big picture.) It is about the God-given creativity found in human beings. We believe that creativity truly is God-given so we have no interest in pursuing creative ideas without pursuing God.
Whenever people pursue "development" (economic gain, educational improvement, health-care improvement, etc) without pursuing God they are pursuing good things -- they are pursuing God's gifts to humanity. We don't insist that people pursue God rather than His gifts, we work with anyone and everyone, but we operate under the belief that pursuing the giver is more useful and primary than pursuing the gifts.
When thinking about development, areas such as economics and social anthropology have long been scrutinized and subdivided into areas of great minutia, yet spiritual issues are often set aside as subjective, divisive and irrelevant to development studies. It is ironic that many of the world's experts in development are Westerners who think and speak little of faith, yet they are trying to impact a third-world environment where faith in a higher power is one of the few things that nearly everyone agrees on.
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