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Despite the global COVID-19 lockdown, The World Needs A Father’s footprint reaches 100 countries!
2020A process developed to help young men (from 18 to before marriage) understand what God had in mind when He created man.
2019TWNAF book and workbook have been translated into 23 languages.
2019The Mother Design workbook and training manual have been translated into 10 languages.
2019The World Needs A Father is now active in 95 countries, and growing in influence.
2019The World Needs A Father movement starts in Ivory Coast and Sierra Leone.
2019The inaugural FACE conference was a massive catalyst for connection and learning, attended by delegates from 17 countries (reaching 75 countries in total) with sessions by experts a variety of fields including leadership, neuroscience, early childhood development and more.
Watch the FACE Conference session videos here 2018The World Needs A Father movement starts in Tanzania.
2018The World Needs A Father is now active in over 50 countries.
2016The book The World Needs A Father: A Trainer’s Guide is translated into 8 languages, with a further 11 in process.
2016Formerly “The Brilliant Mother”, the complementary motherhood training “The Mother Design” is launched, and by the end of the year is in over 20 countries.
Find out more about TMD here 2016The Journey (the TWNAF youth ministry initiative) is launched.
2016The workshop in Lesotho was the first time a Master Mentor training was facilitated by trainers other than Cassie.
2016The World Needs A Father’s visual identity gets a facelift, including a new logo.
2016The World Needs A Father movement starts in Angola, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, and Uganda.
2016The Lazarus Quest, a prison ministry built on TWNAF principles, is started.
2015The World Needs A Father: A Trainer’s Guide is translated into 4 languages, with a further 16 in process.
2015The World Needs A Father movement starts in Botswana.
2014The first edition of The World Needs A Father: A Trainer’s Guide is published.
Buy the latest version of the book on Amazon here August 2014The World Needs A Father movement starts in Nigeria, Namibia and Zimbabwe.
2013TWNAF expands into Benin, the first African country outside of South Africa.
2012The first TWNAF training is held at Vredelust Gemeente, Cape Town, South Africa.
2012The TWNAF training curriculum is developed.
Download the TWNAF training content here 2011 — 2012After a meeting at a coffee shop in Cape Town, what began as a general urgency to solve the issue of fatherlessness takes on a name, and a movement is born: The World Needs A Father.
2011A burning vision for a fatherhood movement is stirred in the hearts of Cassie Carstens and Gerhard van Eck. After many years of individual personal preparation, they begin planning how to tackle the issue of fatherlessness.
2009 — 2011Cassie’s newly adopted daughter called him daddy, which inspired research on the Fatherhood of God.
2005Cassie has his Nyarugusu experience, and starts investigating the solution to the problems in Africa.
2002