Stewardship Over Symbolism frames a hard reset for 2026. Kerrie Holschbach of Food For His Children reveals how dignity, work, and faith dismantle poverty without dependency. Bob Scott of Bob Scott Productions calls Americans back to heritage, community, and shared responsibility. When stewardship replaces spectacle, outcomes follow and cultures endure.
2026 opens with a mirror: look at the soul, then choose stewardship over symbolism. Kerrie Holschbach of Food For His Children shows poverty breaking when goats become micro-loans, youth become entrepreneurs, and dignity replaces dependency in rural Tanzania. Bob Scott of Bob Scott Productions calls communities back to the Hemlock Little World’s Fair and America 250 pride—build something worth passing on.
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The Next Steps Show — Transcript
Guests:
Kerrie Holschbach, Founder and Executive Director, Food For His Children
Bob Scott, Principal, Bob Scott Productions
We enter 2026 knowing that new beginnings demand more than resolutions. They demand clarity. When people talk about change, they often look outward, but the real work begins inward. If you want direction, you must first know who you are. Faith, politics, entrepreneurship, family—each has its place, and balance matters. If you do not know where you are going, it is because you do not yet know who you are.
Responsibility is the core of being human. When responsibility replaces systems, and stewardship replaces spectacle, outcomes follow. When service is replaced by symbolism, decay sets in. That is visible in politics, institutions, and even churches. We are surrounded by aid, but starving for results.
Poverty is not only material. It is about dignity, purpose, and broken relationships. Many organizations count how many people they touch, not whether lives actually change. That is the difference between charity and transformation.
Kerrie Holschbach, founder and executive director of Food For His Children, joined the conversation to explain what lasting change looks like in practice. Working in rural Tanzania, her organization rejects handouts in favor of stewardship. Families do not receive free goods. They receive responsibility.
Food For His Children operates through a micro-loan model centered on dairy goats. Families receive goats with the expectation that the first offspring is passed to another family, and subsequent offspring repay the original loan. Families build their own goat sheds, learn zero-grazing practices, protect livestock, collect manure for farming, and generate sustainable income through milk production. Ownership creates dignity. Accountability creates growth.
Kerrie shared her personal journey, from atheism to faith, from social work in mental health and prisons to missionary work abroad. Her calling emerged from recognizing that schools and churches alone cannot solve poverty unless families themselves are strengthened. Real help happens at the household level.
The organization also runs Street Business School for youth, a six-month program teaching entrepreneurship with little to no capital. Young people build real businesses, learn to problem-solve, experience failure safely, and track progress. Upon graduation, each participant receives seed money—with the expectation it will be passed forward to the next group. Even youth earning less than fifty cents per day learn to become givers, not dependents.
The conversation turned to culture and the misuse of the word “greatness.” In America, “GOAT” has become slang for celebrity and dominance. In Tanzania, goats mean food, income, education, and survival. True greatness feeds families and multiplies opportunity.
Kerrie explained that poverty, in any nation, stems from broken relationships—with God, with oneself, with others, and with creation. Restoring those relationships restores dignity and purpose. That principle applies just as much in the United States as it does overseas.
The second half of the show shifted focus to America’s cultural foundations. Bob Scott, principal of Bob Scott Productions, discussed the importance of tradition, music, and community institutions in restoring national pride. As the nation approaches its 250th anniversary, he emphasized that patriotism is sustained through participation, not rhetoric.
Bob highlighted the Hemlock Little World’s Fair as a living institution, drawing over 40,000 attendees and ranking among the top agricultural fairs in New York State. He outlined plans for a patriotic grandstand parade-style event tied to America 250, calling on fire departments, law enforcement, veterans organizations, marching bands, and community groups to participate.
Music and marching arts once gave young people purpose, discipline, and belonging. Their decline mirrors broader cultural erosion. Bob argued that music should be treated as a lifelong profession and civic asset, not a disposable extracurricular. Community pride grows when people see themselves as part of something larger than themselves.
The message was clear. Whether in rural Africa or rural America, renewal does not come from slogans or symbolism. It comes from stewardship, responsibility, faith, and shared effort. Cultures endure when people build, serve, and pass something meaningful forward.
God, country, and family—in that order—remain the foundation. The work continues.
