To glorify God by investing in the dreams of the widows, orphans and poor people around the communities of Southern Sudan so that they might be free from spiritual and physical poverty.
Goal
To be obedient to Matthew 28:19-20 and James 1:27. Christ motivates us to identify with the poor and care for their spiritual and physical condition around the world.
To start small business including farming, stoves, concrete, bakery/store, fisheries, loans for widows, Biblically-based business training, mentoring and coaching from a Christ-centered perspective through relationships.
Imparting Hope
To be obedient to Matthew 28:19-20 and James 1:27. Christ motivates us to identify with the poor and care for their spiritual and physical condition around the world.
To start small business including farming, stoves, concrete, bakery/store, fisheries, loans for widows, Biblically-based business training, mentoring and coaching from a Christ-centered perspective through relationships.
Imparting Hope
It will be easy for those of us who have worked with the poor to forget to address their poverty. We work around them or on behalf of them, but often we still don't know how they live or how to help.
We have a responsibility to be God's hand and feet in their lives, for God cares about their hungry bellies, hurting feet, dirty drinking water and their jungle born illnesses.
When we reach out without expecting anything in return - just to be a messenger that says, "God knows you are alive, He knows you have this need, and He sent me here to encourage you today" - the hardest heart can become momentarily softened. We then have the opportunity to water some seeds that God has planted.
If we march into homes and poverty stricken communities and ignore the needs we find there, we will attract a few curious friends but we will make little impact. However, having lived the first 18 years of my life in Sudan, I understand the daily struggles of poverty, desperation of the widows and orphans and the challenges people face. So, we must build relationships. Relationships are harder to measure, messier to maintain, and make our days more complicated, but it's through relationships that a vision is born and eventually spread. That vision comes from seeing through someone else's eyes; its the kind of vision God is speaking about when he fed four thousand people in Matthew 15:32-38.
