South Africa is a country still suffering from the ravaging effects of nearly one hundred years of racism. A country that faces high unemployment rates, fierce crime and the relatively new and devastating threat of HIV/AIDS.

When Glenn Campbell, a former Atlanta youth pastor, approached Bobby Reagan and several other Atlanta businessmen with a vision for a ministry to teenagers in South Africa, they joined together to create the Durban Youth Mission – an inner-city Christian ministry in South Africa's second largest city. The Mission is actually a Supporting Organization that Reagan and the others worked with NCF to create.

"Our group needed to set up a 501(c)(3), but we wanted to avoid all the administrative hassles," says Reagan. "We got a lot of help from NCF and now have a very efficient vehicle to channel our giving."

The Durban Youth Mission employs youth pastor Glenn Campbell and his wife Marian, who live full time in Durban and work with kids and their families to help fight cultural challenges resulting from racism and AIDS. Of course, the key component in their efforts is the life-changing message of the Gospel. Only through a change of people's hearts – through faith in Jesus Christ – will real and lasting change take place in Durban.

Back in the U.S., Bobby Reagan and his wife, Beth, who have been NCF donors since 1996, support a number of domestic ministries through their NCF Giving Fund. A major benefit for them is the ability to gift assets to NCF, such as real estate or stocks, and then recommend grants from the proceeds to a number of ministries, at the time the support is needed – rather than having to give the entire asset to only one organization or giving to meet an IRS deadline.

Reagan readily admits, however, that he and his wife still have a way to go. "By no means are we at the pinnacle of giving, but we are trying to be good stewards of what God has given us," he says. "We give because we're called to do it, and hopefully because we find joy in doing it. Living in the midst of Atlanta's Buckhead affluence, one of the best ways to fight the grip materialism has on us is to give freely and joyfully."