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Disturbing the comfortable & comforting the disturbed.

Staff thoughts and life lessons about poverty, injustice, leadership, religion and other social issues in the world today.

2020 Year in review

Thoughts by Dave Blundell – 10 minute read

Hungry For Life has been facilitating partnerships for the past 17 years, which has put us in a unique position to respond to the overwhelming needs as a result of the global pandemic.

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2019 Year in review

Thoughts by Dave Blundell – 10 minute read

Our vision is a world transformed and we’ve been working toward that future for more than 16 years now.

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This is how to tell if you have a shame and blame organizational culture.

Thoughts by Dave Blundell – 3 minute read

Are you brave enough to ask yourself, and those in the organization, if a shame and blame organizational culture exists?

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The one ability managers and leaders need above all others

Thoughts by Dave Blundell – 3 minute read

Leadership is an art, not a science, and this is one of the reasons I love studying and teaching on it. As I synthesize all of the theories and examine the best way to develop as a leader, there is one skill that rises above the rest as the most valuable.

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This is what I do when I feel like giving up on the world.

Thoughts by Dave Blundell – 3 minute read

We wake up each day with the thought that the world could be different in the next generation, with the thought that the global Church could regain a voice of credibility because of its compassion and generosity.

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What is the one thing more effective than motivation?

Thoughts by Dave Blundell – 3 minute read

What leader, parent, teacher, pastor, employer, or any other position of authority you can think of doesn't want their people to be more motivated to do some things and less motivated to do others? Think about how much of your day is spent trying to motivate people to do something. To buy something. To finish something. To start something.

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What good is short-term missions?

Thoughts by Dave Blundell – 3 minute read

I could go on and on about the increasingly negative messaging surrounding short-term missions. Some of the messaging even has some good thoughts that we should pay attention to. Of course, nobody wants to hurt in the helping, and sometimes we do. However, does this desire to do it well mean we should avoid short-term missions all together?

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2018 Year End Update

Thoughts by Dave Blundell – 12 minute read

Not that long ago, I had an epiphany about something that, well, isn’t actually so profound. I had this idea that after Jesus performed miracles in people’s lives, their lives became perfect. But, think about it: everyone that Jesus healed likely got sick again. Everyone that Jesus fed was hungry a few hours later. Everyone that Jesus raised from the dead definitely died again. So, what was the point of all of those miracles, compassion, and meeting people’s physical needs?

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Who's the standard here?

Thoughts by Dave Blundell – 5 minute read

We live in such a critical age. Why is it so deeply engrained in us to make ourselves the standard by which we evaluate other people? I think the answer to that question lies in our self-centered default. If we are the centre of our lives, we evaluate others by the filter of ourself. The more full of myself I am, the more I become God’s gift to the world that everyone should endeavor to be like. 

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Foreigners in “Our” Land!

Thoughts by Dave Blundell – 4 minute read

I am generally super careful about generalizations. But, anyone who has a problem with immigration—especially immigration based on desperate need—must be motivated by a threat to “our” way of life. By “our way of life” I mean religiously, socially, economically or just the simple preference to be around people who are “normal”… like me. “America (Canada) First” or any type of nationalistic protectionism is a profoundly self-centered position. 

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