- [Wendy] Craig Deallwas raising his children

on the same farm inZimbabwe, he grew up on,

(soft music)

when in 2003, the unthinkable happened.

- Well, Wendy, it wasobviously extremely traumatic.

- [Wendy] The government force, Craig,

his wife and children to leave their home

and farm that had beenin his family since 1948,

as part of the government'sland reform program,

an effort to moreequitably distribute land

between black subsistence farmers

and white Zimbabweansof European ancestry.

He says he had three choices.

- We could fight, we couldflee, or we could forgive.

And some of my friends,

they fought for their land

and ended up getting killed for it.

Most of my friends left the country

and no answer is wrong.

It's just a decision.

But we as a family, decided

that we would pursue the third option,

which was to forgive.

- [Wendy] He kept goingback to one scripture.

- That scripture, where Jesus says,

"If a man steals your coat,

"give him your tunic as well."

And so for us, that meantif a man takes your farm,

teach him how to farmand that's what we did.

(people chattering)

And with that, the pressure lifted.

There was a great release over us.

And we knew that Godhad opened up an avenue

for us to serve the people

and to serve the veryleast of his brothers

through agriculture andbring them the Gospel.

- [Wendy] Craig movedhis family to the city.

While about 12 other familiestook over his house and land.

He then joined a group called,

Foundations for Farming.

There he began to teach the new owners

as well as other small-scale farmers,

a unique way of farming

that God revealed to thegroup's Founder, Brian Oldreive.

- [Craig] He went with a childlike faith

into virgin bush, into virgin forest

and he sat there with a childlike face

and asked God, "Teach me how to farm."

And the two things that he saw is

that there's no inversiontillage in nature.

And the next thing you saw

there was this beautiful mulch cover

that covers the first forest floor.

And that's actually God's mechanism

for feeding the soiland protecting the soil.

And so he went back to his farm

and he literally tried it,

just without any tillage and no burning,

which is contrary to theconventional way of farming.

And he immediately gotoutstanding results,

like a 10-time incremental in yield.

And so he knew that it worked

and he started then togrow it bigger and bigger

and he knew that God hadgiven him this revelation,

not for himself,

but to extrapolate(people chattering)

across the continent of Africa,

to the rural farmers,

the hurting the poor onesaround the continent.

- [Wendy] The success

of the zero tillage techniquecaught the attention

of the Zimbabwe government,

which endorsed their method.

And in 2020, the country experienced

its first food surplus in two decades.

- [Craig] The food productionhas jumped four times

between three and four times

of official estimates of thefood increment in year 2020.

- [Wendy] Country's main crop, corn,

tripled with a method.

And now Foundations forFarming teaches the technique

all over the world with themain goal of sharing the Gospel.

- [Craig] 80% of whatwe teach is the heart.

You will never get a behavior change

in the village untilyou've had a heart change.

(group singing)

And so that is where Jesus comes in.

It's using agriculture as anentry point for the gospel.

- Even with all the success,

the Zimbabwe government

never offered Craig anycompensation for his home,

his land or his time teaching.

But he says the way God provided,

he wouldn't change a thing.

- [Craig] We have a sayingin Foundations for Farming

is that once I had a farm in Africa,

but now Africa is my farm.