New Insights and Learnings from Development Practitioners
Bryant L. Myers, editor

The way we understand poverty determines, to a large degree, the way we respond to poverty through development work. When we improve our understanding of development so that it is holistic and biblically sound, we can achieve an authentic, distinctly Christian form of transformation that changes lives and communities. In this book, development practitioners from around the world seek to overcome the Western assumption that physical and spiritual realms are separate when caring for the poor.

About the Editor

Bryant L. Myers is the group vice president for development and food resources at World Vision International. He is responsible for the strategic development of World Vision’s ministries of transformational development, food aid, church relations and Christian witness, and gender and development.

Myers has a doctorate in biological chemistry from the University of California, Los Angeles and has worked for World Vision for over 25 years, including an overseas assignment in Africa. Bryant wrote Walking With the Poor: Principles and Practice of Transformational Development and edited the companion Working with the Poor.

Bryant is an elder at La Canada Presbyterian Church in California. He is married to Lisa Anne and they have two children, Brooke and James