{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The AllCreation Podcast","title":"Called to CARE: Africa Exchange (AfricaExchange.org)","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":5337,"description":"Our first Called to CARE session for 2023 begins like a dinner conversation among friends. In this podcast, AfricaExchange.org co-founders and co-directors, Sam and Melody Harrell, share how their Baptist American-African lives led them to become global leaders in “integrated” sustainable development... “I am blown a-Way.” (Rev. Jimi Calhoun, co-host, legendary musician, author and pastor)Sam and Melody are saving lives and ending poverty with education and holistic, community care. Now celebrating their 25th year, AfricaExchange (AE) has built 14 “integrated child development” preschools in Kenya’s most-isolated / least-resourced regions. AE’s projects are providing and fostering nutrition, clean water, education, sanitation and infrastructure, jobs, job training, Creation care and restoration, and more, on an ongoing basis in these places to help these children and their communities defeat poverty. Meet. Notice. Exchange. Serve. AfricaExchange’s model is rooted in the best of Christianity’s and Africa’s worldviews. As the children of Baptist missionaries in Africa, Sam and Melody’s foundational insight is that CARING FOR OTHERS means: listening, noticing, and being empathetic before acting. AfricaExchange helps communities build upward-spiraling personal and collective assets which benefit the whole community and their local biosphere. AE is exemplar in their work. This podcast is worth multiple listenings for those interested in “learning the lessons that will propel us forward.” (Sam Harrell)#############About our guests • Melody Harrell, spiritual director, AfricaExchange.org • Sam Harrell, executive director, AfricaExchange.org • Rev. Jimi Calhoun, pastor, BridgingAustin.org, author/musician, JimiCalhoun.com • Rev. Julaine Calhoun, pastor, BridgingAustin.org • Chris Searles, director, BioIntegrity.net, exec. editor, AllCreation.org About this seriesIn this time of polarizations and extremes we seem to be going to our Media for answers, and yet our Media is...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/_5m40-k81vuSvjxBJt9vDBZswvvMja2d_z3tgNyljWI/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzE5MDY5LzE2MTQ3/MDM2MTktYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}