Paradigm Shift’s team just grew by 25!

That’s some incredible growth huh?

How you may ask… well by a new volunteer team being trained up through a partner church. It is a team of business trainers, life coaches, table trainers, microcredit coordinators and mentors.

Each person fills a specific role that works towards the greater goal: seeing their church engage with the poor both spiritually and economically.

Paradigm Shift uses the powerful principle of leverage. The team of five Paradigm Shift staff members leveraged the time, energy and efforts of over 100 last year. This year, the team of seven Paradigm Shift staff members will leverage the time energy and efforts of over 500 this year.

This isn’t the amount of entrepreneurs trained. This is the number of South Africans empowered to be the answers to their own communities pressing needs. This is a gathering of South Africans taking the initiative to hold out hope for those forgotten. This is ultimately Paradigm Shift’s reason for existence: training, equipping, empowering South African churches to muster together the requisite human capital within their congregations and offer it in service to those who need it most.

It started with one church.

It grew to two.

Then to four.

And now to eight.

Eventually twelve.

Soon sixteen.

Then to twenty.

It is at twenty churches that we cap it. Why? Because we are making the Paradigm Shift better and better so that eventually it will become a replicable outreach put into the hands of congregations across South Africa and then soon into other parts of Africa.

It is an exciting road ahead… Looking forward to sharing the journey with you.