Posts by Renita

For years, many people have used the Chinese proverb, “Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day.  Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.” The first sentence is clear and true.  If you give a man a fish, his hunger will be alleviated for that day.  The next day he will be hungry again. For years, I’ve been hedging on the second sentence.  To help me hedge, I’ve added a third sentence:  For a man...

It was a week of intensive learning about livestock – from feed to health, to genetics, to farm management.  It was great! Narok County is unlike any other part of Kenya, according to people we met with this week.  It is made up of the Masai Tribe, who have a rich tradition and culture with deep roots in raising beef cattle.  Many own 50+ acres of land and could have up to 400 cows.  We had some very good meetings and are being...

I’m in Kenya this week with Paul Soper, CFO of DML, and an old friend, Malcolm DeKryger from DeMotte IN.  Malcolm is the President and CEO of Belstra Milling and Fair Oaks Pig Adventure, as well as a number of other agribusinesses.  We will be taking a look at the challenges relating to livestock feed around several parts of Kenya.  The conversation around a trip like this started during a phone call in September of 2019 and was...

We believed that 2019 would be a breakthrough year for DML with denominations and we have seen that happen. In 2019, we were able to join with six denominations representing nearly 30,000 churches and are in conversations with others. You can see from our metrics below, how God has been blessing our teams across Africa to reach churches and businesspeople with this forgotten truth! This is just the first three quarters of 2019.  We...

It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It is what you know for sure that just ain’t so (Mark Twain). DML is about a message and a method. The method is training built on a solid Biblical foundation of God’s message.   As we travel and teach, we find recurring “truths” in many churches that “just ain’t so.” Here are a few of our favorite: the church is a place to go, not a people equipped to go, some things are sacred...