For many years, I worked off and on in Guatemala, and returned a number of times to find there was little positive change for all the well-intentioned development efforts. Poverty was rampant, children were not in school, the villages were trash-strewn and disheveled. Then in 2002, I returned as Regional Director of Food for the Hungry operations in Latin America. To my great astonishment, things had radically changed. New schools had been built, parents were working hard, their view of their children and the importance of education had changed. They saw their children as image-bearers of God with lives full of dignity and purpose. I was astounded! What was the difference? They had been taught a biblical worldview, and particularly a biblical understanding of human life and purpose. - Buck Deines

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