Joe Ader served as a pastor at The Village Church for six years prior to becoming the Executive Director of Serve Denton a nonprofit focused on providing infrastructure and tools to help other nonprofits fulfill their mission. Joe has served as President of Habitat for Humanity, worked with orphans in Guatemala and has spent years researching, testing and teaching tools and techniques for serving the poor. Understanding Poverty was developed from a passionate belief that we could do and should do a much better job at serving our neighbors in need.