The girl who once had to grow up early has become a leader whom other people follow. Those who’ve known her since she was a teenager say she was always the kind of person who tried to take the load off others.

What a kite knows about a child who's had a hard start — and the same wind that keeps knocking it down being the only thing that will ever lift it.

How one sentence, spoken by an eight-year-old at a stoplight in Quito, changed a father's ministry — and, years later, ours.

Watching a child's whole sense of himself shift like that is, as Tamitha puts it, "seeing himself through God's eyes for the first time — that's exactly why we built this." It's the distance between a child surviving a hard week and beginning, slowly, to thrive.

How Karol and Abraham walked into a community no one was supposed to enter — and why we built THRIVE Community Care to walk with pastors like them.

A Tuesday at Agua Viva, the M:25 campus outside Quito, where the first lesson each day is a child's body learning it is safe.

After illness linked to contaminated water took lives in her Shuar village, Yumi brought clean-water filters home — and a church grew from it.

How Agua Viva was bought before the money existed — a chain of yeses from a California church, a father, a denomination, and 200 children.

How a one-week 2016 email exchange became M:25's trauma-informed method — and a Lee University partnership that has anchored a decade of children's work.

A handmade worry doll helped one child sleep after Ecuador's 2016 earthquake — and taught us that care has to be something a child can hold.

“I wish I could have white rice at home.” He had eaten green rice his whole life. The white rice with the church’s clean water was the first version he had ever seen. He thought it was special-occasion food.