3e United (formerly 3e McKinney) was founded in 2006 by retired McKinney City Manager Larry Robinson and a group of churches who agreed that coordinating our human and financial capital to work together could have a much greater impact on the empowerment of our materially under-resourced neighbors than we could alone. Over these last 13 years 3e United has deployed thousands of members of our congregations for service and volunteer efforts, including Clothe-A-Child, Garage Give-Away, Serve Day, Run for Cover, and many other annual events. We also created the Adopt The School Program, where our churches are able to send mentors into our Title 1 schools. While we were able to deploy the church for good work, we also began to recognize that our future activity would be better focused on root cause solutions. After viewing the video “Poverty Inc.” and reading Toxic Charity and When Helping Hurts, the 3e McKinney Board decided to realign our Mission Statement and Vision with these new insights. Our new framework–reflected in our new name–is an ecosystem approach where we understand that we understand that God’s original design is for all to flourish.