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2002, at the Nyarugusu refugee camp in Tanzania.
As horrific stories of rape, dismemberment and slaughter shook Cassie to his core, one thing became inescapably clear — there had to be a deeper catalyst for this brokenness than what initially met the eye.
15 years of interaction with leaders around the world, hundreds of hours of research and thousands of meetings later, we are even more convinced that fatherlessness wasn’t just an issue facing those refugees.
IT IS THE ISSUE
“Virtually every major social pathology has been linked to fatherlessness.”
Stephen Baskerville
WE BELIEVE
THERE IS A SOLUTION
Founded on common sense and the principles for healthy family, The World Needs A Father is about training communities of men to understand the value of their roles as fathers, and giving them the tools to train other men around them, so that as heaven splashes down in their home, the ripples flow through their community.
Global Influence, part 3
The World Needs A Father is now active in over 50 countries.
2016
Translation, part 2
The book The World Needs A Father: A Trainer’s Guide is translated into 8 languages, with a further 11 in process.
2016
Africa, part 4
Formerly “The Brilliant Mother”, the complementary motherhood training “The Mother Design” is launched, and by the end of the year is in over 20 countries.
2016
The Journey
The Journey (the TWNAF youth ministry initiative) is launched.
2016
Flying Solo
The workshop in Lesotho was the first time a Master Mentor training was facilitated by trainers other than Cassie.
2016
Makeover
The World Needs A Father’s visual identity gets a facelift, including a new logo.
2016
Africa, part 4
The World Needs A Father movement starts in Angola, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, and Uganda.
2016
The Lazarus Quest
The Lazarus Quest, a prison ministry built on TWNAF principles, is started.
2015Translation, part 1
The World Needs A Father: A Trainer’s Guide is translated into 4 languages, with a further 16 in process.
2015Africa, part 3
The World Needs A Father movement starts in Botswana.
2014
The Book
The first edition of The World Needs A Father: A Trainer’s Guide is published.
August 2014Africa, part 2
The World Needs A Father movement starts in Nigeria, Namibia and Zimbabwe.
2013Africa, part 1
TWNAF expands into Benin, the first African country outside of South Africa.
2012
Liftoff!
The first TWNAF training is held at Vredelust Gemeente, Cape Town, South Africa.
2012
Creating the Curriculum
The TWNAF training curriculum is developed.
2011 — 2012
The World Needs A Father is Born
After 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.
2011
Burning Vision
A 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 — 2011
She Called Him Daddy
Cassie’s newly adopted daughter called him daddy, which inspired research on the Fatherhood of God.
2005The Nyarugusu Experience
Cassie has his Nyarugusu experience, and starts investigating the solution to the problems in Africa.
2002