First, I’m grateful for our amazing volunteers. People like Carmen Hernandez who share their skills with SIA. Carmen put together this...

“What are those crazy things hanging in the tree?” I asked the SIA Small Business Fund Coordinators when we saw them on the site of our...

I am so excited to share Spirit in Action’s new logo! Wait, new logo? Did SIA have an old logo? Short answer, not really. Long answer, we...

Brown Ngoma is expanding his family’s store, building a home, and now “when his family is sick he can pay for a private hospital.”...

Yesterday, Boyd and I took our lunch break to read Martin Luther King Jr.’s Letter from a Birmingham Jail aloud to each other. Reading it...

How many languages do you speak? In the U.S., the answer is generally “one” or, maybe “two.” In the countries I visited this summer...

Tanya shows off a basket and hat woven by one of the Small Business Fund groups. I’m grateful for the generosity of our grant partners!...

1. Catching Dennis Kiprop’s Contagious Optimism Dennis Kiprop (Kenya) and Canaan Gondwe (Malawi) chat during a break in the SIA Small...

As you may have heard or seen, the SIA website was hacked yesterday. I got a dreaded email from Google warning me that the site would...

Is anyone else having a week where there seems to be too much bad news in the world? Time to record some things I’m grateful for, to keep...

The bright, sun-flooded room was filled with community members. They were excited to welcome us as visitors from the US to their rural...

*Update* The video is now working! Scroll down to see the Manyamula Band singing us a welcome song. (8/5/14) Just before leaving for...

There is no you, there is no me. There’s only God that I can see. There is no us, there is no them. There’s only God. Amen. — “There’s...

Breathe. Relax. Follow the path in front of you. I woke up in a panic this morning. I had dreamed that I had planned a second trip to...

Tanya in northern Scotland. I spent last week at the Findhorn Foundation, a spiritual community in northern Scotland. I went not knowing...

Here’s five things making me happy this week. I hope you all had an inspiring Easter! 1. Ready for Easter: Eggs in Malawi Lilian and her...

Kids at Samro School and Empowering Lives International play baseball in the mud. For World Storytelling Day on Thrusday, and as a way of...

Hastings and Ruth with sturdy bricks for their house. (Malawi) Parable of the 3 Stonecutters An old story tells of three stonecutters who...

“I believe that the whole world about me is full of beauty, joy and power, even as it is full of God, and that I can share it and enjoy...

Vestor with the car he bought with a grant and low-interest loan from the Manyamula Village Savings and Loans Cooperative. I’ve often...