Called to CARE: Scott Sabin (PlantWithPurpose.org)

Called to CARE with SCOTT SABIN, ceo, Plant With Purpose. Solving Poverty with environmental care. Learning from "the Poor." Redefining "Inclusion." Choosing to grow a future we can all look forward to. Leaving things better than you find them. Creating abundance by caring for the living members of the creation... That's what this podcast is about. Hope you enjoy Called to CARE with Scott Sabin. 

"Right now we are directly serving about 500,000 people and having a measurable impact on just over 1,000,000 people." - SCOTT  

CARE: Curious. Appropriate. Responsive. Empathetic.

In this interview world-changing Christian leader, Scott Sabin, whose organization is currently helping more than 1,000,000 people in nine countries, shares some insights after 30 years of leading breakthrough sustainable development work. Scott is joined by legendary funk bassist, noted author, and care-centric pastor, Reverend Jimi Calhoun, as well as the co-founder/executive editor of AllCreation.org, Chris Searles.

Plant With Purpose is a nonprofit organization utilizing globally-strategic reforestation, regenerative agriculture, purpose groups, community-savings groups, church partners, and open-hearted, Christian-community values to lift roughly one million of the world's most isolated and under-resourced people out of poverty today. When Scott started with the organization as executive director, 30 years ago, they had one program and just 80 participants. 

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Learn More

• ScottSabin.com 
• PlantWithPurpose.org

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COHOSTS
Rev. Jimi Calhoun is lead pastor at BridgingAustin.org, an influential musician and a noted author (JimiCalhoun.com) who's just published his fifth book. Chris Searles is founder/director at BioIntegrity Partnerships (biointegrity.net), an environmental solutions nonprofit which produces AllCreation.org, and co-founder/executive editor at AllCreation.org. 

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PROGRAM
0:00 Welcome
5:45 SCOTT

13:10 INCLUSION
30:30 REDEEMING “WORK”

39:25 “POVERTY”

46:40 THE FUTURE WE CHOOSE 

59:55 WHAT IS A #1 PRIORITY? 

WELCOME
0:00 Chris Searles, co-host/producer

0:45 Intro' Rev. Jimi Calhoun, co-host

2:15 Intro' Scott Sabin, special guest
5:45 Scott on PlantWithPurpose: “We stand on the shoulders of giants... Literally, everything we’re doing now, we learned from our local partners... It's so easy to approach things as if we have all the answers... They're planting the trees, not us, almost 62 million trees now... Managing over $12 million of their own money... making about an 18 to 20% return on their investments...

INCLUSION
13:10  Jimi, story on Landi the landscaper and being a Christian missionary in Belize (Central America). "The first thing I learned (as a missionary) was to value people as you find them... When you're inserted into a different culture you have two choices,  try and convert them to what you're bringing, or allow yourself to be stretched a little bit... Sensitivity and humility, those are our bywords."
20:30 Scott, on the prejudices against subsistence farmers, “The people we work with are our Partners not our projects... We have as much to learn from them -- or more, than we have to offer and it’s in working together that anything’s accomplished.”
22:25 Jimi, story on Castillo the part-maker, "Ingenuity doesn't come from regurgitating what came in, it comes from your observation and what you're able to do with what you see!"