Our Approach

RURCON is not a Funding Agency but rather an Enabling OrganisatIon which believes in local self-reliance and sustainable lifestyles based on good Christian Stewardship or ‘Caring Management", focusing on the poor. The realities of African pre-Christian culture are of a fully-integrated religion + everyday life such that the ancestors operate as the living dead and are consulted in all matters pertaining to practical life decisions. The gospel as often presented, addresses personal salvation - a personal "ticket to heaven" or the "upward" dimension - but not enough towards the matter of the "horizontal" dimension of relationships with others, and very little towards the "downward" dimension of the earth and its stewardship. RURCON is working to address these issues.

RURCON seeks to be both responsive to Church requests for help and pro-active in furthering the cause through education and extension of appropriate ideas, values and practices.

RURCON believes God made us to be givers and receivers in relationship with Him, with each other and with our particular place and resources.
RURCON focuses on people and possessions engaged in prayerful progress using appropriate ideas and technology - for water development, farming, health, shelter, transport, etc.
Success in RURCON's work of promoting Christian Stewardship can be assessed by several criteria including:

Greater trust in God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
Greater fellowship together - stronger communities.
Greater release of resources to God's work locally and to give away.

Proverbs 29:18 warns "where there is no vision, the people perish", so where there is vision, the work of God can flourish. To have a project, programme or plan, however well prepared, is no guarantee of success without humble dependence on the Spirit of God in its conception and execution. RURCON does not run projects but rather, we advice on Christian Stewardship for development.

Christian Stewardship is central to the progress of the Church since Christians are stewards of:

The gospel (good news) of Jesus Christ and His Cross.
Ourselves - souls, minds and bodies
Others around us - their souls, minds and bodies.
Whatever material possessions God entrusts to us.

The environment - to ensure sustainable livelihoods in future.