• FROM THE DIRECTOR: What Do These Stones Mean?
   • No More Demons In Hell
   • The Economics of Reconciliation
   • Rebuilding Rwanda through Holistic Microfinance
   • When Helping Hurts in Rwanda

After the Israelites crossed over the Jordan River into the Promissed Land, Joshua piled up twelve stones. He said to the Israelites,

"In the future, when your descendants ask their fathers, 'What do these stones mean?' tell them, 'Israel crossed the Jordan on dry ground.' For the LORD your God dried up the Jordan before you until you had crossed over. The LORD your God did to the Jordan just what he had done to the Red Sea when he dried it up before us until we had crossed over. He did this so that all the peoples of the earth...Read Full Article »

In 1994, Tom LePage, who has been the Senior Director of the Chalmers Center for the past two years, was working for a major relief and development organization in Africa. Tom visited Rwanda shortly after the genocide and witnessed the carnage in the country as a whole and in the church in particular. Tom recently spoke at a dinner hosted by the Chalmers Center that celebrated what God is doing in Rwanda. Watch the video clip below to hear Tom's dramatic description of what he saw in Rwanda fifteen years ago and the significance... Read Full Article »

Many leading economists believe that trust is essential for spurring economic growth. People will not lend money to people whom they do not trust to repay. People won't get their cars fixed if they don't trust the mechanic. People won't save their money in banks if they don't trust those banks to keep their money safe. In this light, it seems that economic growth would be impossible in a place like Rwanda. How can you trust the local shop owner who killed your wife and child with a machete? Read Full Article »

Ever since Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus started the Grameen Bank of Bangladesh, the international development community has been understandably enamored by microfinance/ microenterprise development. In the traditional, credit-led model, a Microfinance Institution (MFI) lends money from donors to very poor people and collects the money back with interest. The poor borrowers are able to use their loans from the MFI to finance their microenterprises in order to earn income and to support their families. Read Full Article »

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