Could poverty be a sign of our need to heal our relationships with self, with family, with our communities, with all mankind, with all living things, with the earth and with God? My father, Frank Pullar Junior, served two terms as president of the former Rodney Shire Council.He was not into financial management – that …
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Community projects
The leaders of projects are working with me. One group is creating The Chicken Project Another group has a bigger poultry house project. And Colin is starting rabbit projects There are already a number of rabbit farming projects operating. Rabbits breed quickly, about 28-31 days breeding cycle. The baby rabbits can be weaned at 3 …
Poverty
Could poverty be defined as “the amount brokenness of relationships”? After communicating with many people who have no food, I have learned a lot more about what it is really like in places such as Uganda or Kenya. I appreciate these people’s friendliness, their willingness to help me, their persistence and the smiles on their …
Business coaching
I work with you so that you can create a business that provides a valuable service or product to your customers, and earn an income in exchange for that value that your business provides to your customers. For a community, I can coach a leader to take on the role of a business coach. We …
Charity
I receive many messages from people who are asking for relief. Some are from people who do were earning money from working at a job. But now the business that they were working for has closed so they have no income.They and the orphans that they are caring for often have no food. While I …
Our community
I would like to give you my undivided attention. There is a problem. Many people want to communicate with me and I can not give each of you the amount of individual attention that you would like. There are not enough hours in the day for me to do that. Just like a baker focuses …
Honouring
My original aim in helping to create this community was to share stories as a resource so the people in our community would not continue to be crushed. It now seems to me that I was thinking too small. A bigger purpose could be to honour the members of our community. For example Murray Pullar …
When helping hurts
I remember when Robert Kiyosaki was leading the “Money and You” program in Australia more than 20 years ago and he explained that he does not give his money to poor people as it damages them. Similarly in the preface of the book “When helping hurts – how to alleviate poverty without hurting the poor …
What are you going to do about it?
I was about eight years old and I was telling my father, Frank Pullar, about a problem that I was facing in my life. He listened to me until I finished telling him. He then paused for a moment before replying “And what are you going to do about it?” Over the years he did …
Brian Cabena
In about 1974 I again met Brian and started doing some volunteer work with his group of people who were setting up the first FM radio broadcast station in Victoria. Over the next few months as I worked with Brian and the other volunteers, I was inspired by all the many steps in his journey …