Welcome to the Global Institute For Transformation (GIFT)
The Global Institute For Transformation (GIFT) is a cross-denominational, 501(c)(3) ministry that's helping people experience life to the fullest -- more joyful, loving, loved, connected, faithful, with greater purpose and meaning, helping others and being helped, and living a life that matters so much to others.
The ministry focuses a lot of attention on all the GIFTs we've received and all the ways our GIFTs can transform the lives of others around us -- and transform our own lives. To reflect on what we call "the two faith pillars of GIFT and TRANSFORMATION," click here.)
GIFT shares exciting ways God has worked powerfully and impactfully in the lives of everyday people. GIFT also shares resources so everyone can tap into that flow and power of God's love -- to more fully experience God's incredible, tangible love and to bring God's incredible, tangible love to others.
GIFT develops material and spiritual innovations to meet needs across the U. S. and globally.
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GIFT's mission involves researching, creating and deploying innovative resources for the material and spiritual benefit of people in the U.S. and around the world -- including by working collaboratively with like-minded Christians, the Church and various ministries to co-create better lives and a better world.
GIFT has been providing innovations to address unmet material needs in Haiti, Malawi and Philippines. Spiritually, GIFT has supported Christian evangelization and discipleship, including by working through and supporting local Churches and Archdiocesan and global ministry organizations.
GIFT's mission is: Transforming hearts, lives and communities by helping people humbly receive, reciprocate and regift the GIFTs of God.
Here are updates on GIFT's global development work from one of our partners, Arpin-Strong:
https://arpin-strong.org/a-gift-that-changes-and-shapes-lives
GLOBAL INSTITUTE FOR TRANSFORMATION (gift) EMPHASIZES TWO FOUNDATIONAL FAITH PILLARS:
1) GIFT; AND 2) TRANSFORMATION.
sINCE EVERYONE AND EVERYTHING ARE GIFTS FROM GOD, WE SHOULD:
RECEIVE and more fully appreciated GOD'S MANY GIFTS IN HUMBLE APPRECIATION...
RECIPROCATE TO GOD FOR ALL HIS INCREDIBLE GIFTS BY ALLOWING the holy spirit TO TRANSFORM US TO LIVE AND LOVE MORE LIKE JESUS...
AND REGIFT god'S LOVING GIFTS to OTHERS TO TRANSFORM OUR WORLD -- Materially and spiritually
FOOD FIGHT!!!
Join The Great Pumpkin Food FIGHT.
Fighting For Those Who Need Food.
We're called to feed those who are hungry and to be stewards of our world.
This Halloween -- with U. S. food pantry shelves often going empty before Thanksgiving, and with 800 million people worldwide going hungry each day -- maybe we could reevaluate the $800 million our nation spends annually on Pumpkins. Maybe we can help fund for restocking pantry shelves and growing food globally. Maybe we'll even reduce harmful methane emissions, at the same time. Please check out this video. Then please consider joining the Food Fight, by going to our Donation Page and investing in feeding others.
OUR INSIGHTS ON
THE TWO FAITH PILLARS OF
GIFT AND TRANSFORMATION
WERE PUBLISHED BY THE VATICAN
The Vatican Laudato Si Action Platform -- a unit of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development -- published as a "Resource" GIFT's document, "Averting the Letdown After Christmas -- And Celebrating With Impact All Year," which focuses on the two faith pillars of GIFT and TRANSFORMATION.
GIFT ESPOUSES AND SUPPORTS CHRISTIAN UNITY, WHICH JESUS PRAYED FOR AND THE FATHER DESIRES
Jesus was always right, and He specifically prayed that His Church would be united. In fact, He warned -- correctly -- that a divided Church would not be as effective as needed and even faces the risk of ruin.
History actually confirms this reality of how ineffectual a divided Church can be, as noted by the perspective shared by the Chief of the
Nez Perce Reservation to the left.
To support the unity Jesus prayed for and is seeking from today's Christians and His Church, the cross-denominational GIFT ministry provides resources using Protestant NIV Bible Text which have also received Catholic Imprimaturs.
And let's be more loving to one another and not risk being "on the wrong side of God" in this important issue of unity. NOTE: Acknowledging that there's often discord being expressed across and about denominations over theological differences, we may want to consider that Scripture says our loving God actually
'hates' those who do this: "These six things the Lord hates: (including) ...one who sows discord among brethren."
Proverbs 6: 16-19, NKJV
GIFT Operations support unmet material needs in Haiti, Malawi and Philippines with efficacious, research-based solutions, including training for illiterate women to start sewing and soap manufacturing businesses; optimizing the farming of climate-smart, water-smart and nutrition-smart sweet potatoes and their edible leaves (the crop that yields the most calories per acre); installing solar and storage systems and solar irrigation systems; establishing rabbit breeding businesses; providing water filtration to avert Cholera; and more.
GIFT also provides innovative resources and nourishing insights for Spiritual Development, including Scripture art, Bible studies, children's curricula; a children's book; community presentations, etc. You'll find resources in this website that can support your faith journey, your family, your Church or ministry, your Spiritual accompaniment with others, and your evangelistic outreach. GIFT provides resources to help all of us more fully appreciate God's many GIFTs... to reciprocate back to God for all those GIFTs by allowing the Holy Spirit and God's Word to TRANSFORM our minds to think, love and live more like Jesus and become the face of Christ in our communities and across the world...and to help TRANSFORM our world with the incredible love and support of God.
GIFT supports our affiliated entity, Honey For Haiti, in bringing solar and storage, rabbit breeding and other solutions to Haiti,
PLEASE SUPPORT GIFT IN Advancing TRANSFORMATIVE innovations to address UNMET spiritual and material needs DOMESTICALLY AND GLOBALLY
The Global Institute For Transformation (GIFT) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit cross-denominational ministry that brings life-transforming material solutions to people in the poorest parts of the world and in the U. S. and brings spiritual resources to individuals not yet fully engaged in the joyous, saving graces of faith. GIFT supports and works through Churches and faith-based organizations domestically and globally. GIFT seeks to support Jesus' want and prayer that His Church be united and impactful in addressing physical and spiritual needs.
Working in support of other faith organizations, GIFT strives to do as much as possible for the Lord, consistent with His own encouragement and incredible challenge to all of us: "...Whoever believes in me will do the works I have been doing, and they will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father. And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son." John 14: 12-13.
GIFT created "The Great Pumkin Food Fight -- Fighting For Those Who Need Food" fundraising campaign, to address hunger domestically and globally. U. S. food pantries are very stressed, and hundreds of millions globally go hungry, while the U.S. spends $800 million annually on wasted pumpkins. This Food Fight encourages an alternative Halloween celebration opportunity vs. the purchase of pumpkins that typically only get thrown out. (Representing horrible food waste!). This is not only a Halloween campaign -- you can also match what you spent last Halloween with a donation today! Food Fighters can donate to the cause and use a graphic of a pumpkin vs. purchasing an actual pumpkin, or they can match the amount they've spent on pumpkins with a donation to support U.S. food pantries and to address global hunger via efficacious farming programs. The Great Pumpkin Food Fight was covered by Catholic TV in their coverage of World Food Day. This year, why not join the FOOD FIGHT???
THE NEED TO AFFECT TRANSFORMATIONS IS CRITICAL TO ALL CHRISTIANS
GIFT helps all Christians fulfill the call for transformations articulated by numerous faith leaders.
As the United Methodist Church notes, "The Mission of the church is to make disciples of Jesus Christ for the TRANSFORMATION of the world."
The USCCB Document on the Laity, "Co-Workers in the Vineyard of the Lord," states: "The risen Lord calls everyone to labor in a world that must be TRANSFORMED in view of the final coming of the Reign of God; the Holy Spirit empowers all with various GIFTS and ministries for the building up of the Body of Christ... All of the baptized are called to work toward the TRANSFORMATION of the world... All of the faithful are called in various ways to share in the Church’s mission of announcing the reign of God and TRANSFORMING the world in the light of Christ.”
Pope Francis indicated in his first Sunday Mass homily, "With Christ, we can TRANSFORM ourselves and the world."
To help achieve these goals, GIFT prayerfully seeks to provide Spiritual Support; Material Support; and Church and Ministry Support via a cross-denominational ministry that unites the Church in the TRANSFORMATIVE, selfless love of Christ for the good of humanity.
Early in GIFT's history, Archbishop Elden Curtiss endorsed GIFT as “sorely needed” for our innovations in spiritual and material resources. GIFT has since received multiple Catholic Church Imprimaturs and an Ecclesiastical Permission.
Nazarene Church District Superintendent, Larry White, also encouraged the creation of GIFT while GIFT's founder was serving as a Licensed Minister in the Nazarene denomination.
Excitedly, the Vatican's Laudato Si Action Platform just published a GIFT document on two faith pillars, GIFT and TRANSFORMATION, as a "Resource" for their network of organizations concerned about and supporting the "Cry of the Poor" and the "Cry of the Earth." This resource encourages focusing on these two faith pillars as a way of keeping the spirit, love and joy of Christmas alive all year long.