This is our 15th year of ministry, helping churches and groups find strategic partnerships in the developing world. We do this believing that compassion and justice are close to the heart of God, and that one of the most powerful ways to experience spiritual reciprocity, the exchange of spiritual blessing, is to get out of our comfort zone and see what God is doing in other places around the world.
For the last 15 years, we have endeavored to facilitate cross-cultural compassion ministry with long-term relationships between people from different continents, and at the same time also point those that are not spiritually committed towards a tangible Christian faith that displays the heart of God for the marginalized.
Isaiah 58:10 says, “If you spend yourselves on behalf of the hungry and satisfy the needs of the oppressed, then your light will shine like the noonday sun.” I have to believe that Jesus had that verse in mind when he said, “Let your light shine before men, so that they see your good deeds and glorify your father in heaven” in Matthew 5.
Our mission is ‘to glorify God by cultivating spiritual and physical flourishing through cross-cultural ministry’. What we do as an organization is first and foremost for the glory of God, to spread his fame among the nations. Revelation 15:4 says in part, “…for you alone are holy. All nations will come and worship before you, for your righteous acts have been revealed.” We want to see more people flourishing and giving God the glory from among the nations, and it’s when indigenous local people of a nation see the righteous acts of God’s people, when they experience his goodness and mercy and the truth of His word, that they exalt His name.
As an organization, we are always looking for ways to spread that truth in developing countries, whether through our church partners or special initiatives. The fact that people from North America would spend their time and money to foster relationships with under-resourced people in developing countries sends a loud message to those communities. That message is: you matter to God, and you matter to us, and we want to see you thrive.