Prayer doesn’t come easily, especially for leaders who feel pressure to perform, decide, and appear confident. Yet prayer is not a retreat from leadership; it is the place where control is released and obedience begins. When prayer is elevated, the burden of outcomes shifts from our shoulders to God’s, and leadership is transformed from striving to trust.

The local church is God’s chosen agent of transformation. Rooted in prayer, unity, and surrender to Christ, lasting change flows through people who are being transformed themselves.

True partnership in missions is not built on resources, strategies, or outcomes; it is built on prayer, humility, and trust. When we walk together as co-equals under Christ, relationships become the foundation for lasting Kingdom impact. This is the kind of partnership God uses to transform communities, not through control, but through surrender and obedience.

True transformation doesn’t begin with plans or programs. It begins with prayer. When we lead from a place of dependence on Christ, prayer anchors our mission, shapes our discernment, and keeps the glory where it belongs.

This year, we saw a growing desire for missions rooted in dignity, partnership, and prayer. As we look back at the blogs that resonated most in 2025, we’re reminded that lasting Kingdom impact happens when we pursue ministry with intention, humility, and a shared commitment to sustainable transformation.

This Christmas, consider a gift that does more than inspire for a moment. Teach a Man to Fish invites readers to rethink missions, generosity, and the role of the local church in creating lasting, Christ-centered transformation.

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What started as a simple Christmas VBS for children in Ethiopia became the moment Florence realized compassion alone wasn’t enough to create lasting change. In this story from Teach a Man to Fish, we revisit the Christmas Eve that opened her eyes to poverty, broke her heart for the vulnerable, and revealed God’s sustainable strategy for empowerment through the local church. When Compassion Alone Isn’t Enough: A Christmas Lesson From Ethiopia

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When the local church begins to see the brokenness in its own community as its responsibility, everything changes. Poverty, violence, and injustice stop being “someone else’s problem” and become opportunities for the church to live out its calling as salt and light. Transformation starts when those called to bring change are first transformed themselves.

In an episode of Catch the Wind: Learning to Live a Spirit-Led Life, Teach a Man to Fish coauthor Dr. Florence Muindi shares how the Holy Spirit continues to guide her work and ministry. Through stories of faith, surrender, and transformation, she invites us to rediscover what it means to truly live a Spirit-led life, one step of obedience at a time.

Discover the power of partnership in global missions. Learn how the Global North and South can work together to equip local churches, build sustainable ministry, and bring lasting Kingdom transformation.

Prayer isn’t just preparation for missions, it’s the greater work. When we seek God first, He reveals His strategy, opens doors in broken communities, and brings true transformation that goes beyond what our own plans could accomplish.

Early in our journey, we were asked if we wanted to help pack a million meals to send overseas. On the surface, it seemed like an incredible opportunity, who wouldn’t want to provide food for those in need? But when we looked closer, we realized none of our partners had actually asked for those meals. That was our first wake-up call, relief and development are not the same thing

When we first began exploring how to partner in ministry, we asked ourselves a simple but profound question: Why work this way? The answer came from both experience and Scripture, shaping a shared conviction that true impact comes from walking side-by-side, learning from one another, and pursuing God’s vision for lasting transformation.

We didn’t set out to write a book.

In fact, if you asked us years ago if we had plans to become authors, the answer would’ve been no. Our focus wasn’t on publishing. It was on obedience, doing what the Lord had called us to do.

My new dental colleagues and I quickly realized that when patients agree to lie down in a dental chair, they are expressing vulnerability and trust. This trust goes beyond physical care, it opens the door to spiritual conversations.

I found myself thinking, “This can’t be God’s way. We shouldn’t come for a week and then leave people behind in pain.” I vowed never to do that again.

For the first time, I truly felt the weight of the community’s suffering and the bleak reality they faced once we left. A horrible, sinking feeling struck deep in my soul. I realized I was part of the reason for Paul’s tears, and for the pain of those 85 people still in line.

In that moment, I understood: something had to change.

I broke down and wept with the realization that the people I had met might be part of my tribe and that my own people might have contributed to their current state of poverty and bondage. This gut-wrenching realization shook me to the core.

Displaced people still lived in flimsy tents and shacks, buildings that had collapsed during the earthquake remained as piles of rubble, and the streets were lined with trash and debris. UNICEF confirmed our observations, estimating that, one year after the disaster, more than one million people remained displaced, living in crowded camps with insufficient services for children to stay healthy.