This week, South Africa’s National Planning Commission (NPC) presented a national development plan to President Jacob Zuma.
The plan centers around two goals: to eliminate poverty and to reduce economic inequality in South Africa. To accomplish these two goals, the plan calls for a “paradigm shift” where people become “…active champions of their own development, and that the government work effectively to develop people’s capabilities.”
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Every now and then we have to remind ourselves of why we do what we do. That’s why we love this video that really brings home the importance of the great commission, and what it really means to make disciples.
Watch it. Share it. And make 2012 the year of the great commission for you, your family, your church or your organization.
Paradigm Shift is Recruiting!
If you’re reading this blog you may already be a champion for Paradigm Shift’s mission to fight global poverty by equipping churches to sustainably empower the poor. And you may have already asked yourself the question, “What more can I do?”
Consider spending a year in South Africa as a Paradigm Shift team member.
Last month 15 volunteers in 3 vans with 2 trailers full of food and clothing drove for 7 hours from Johannesburg to Beitbridge, Zimbabwe. Their mission? To take the Paradigm Shift business training curriculum to nearly 40 Zimbabwean entrepreneurs all working to break the cycle of poverty in their lives.
