When people love Jesus, they want to do things that help and serve others and hope to change the world.
As well as Servants in Hawthorn, we regularly support a Malawian pastor working in one of the poorest countries in the world. We also support two Indian churches in 'the second poorest slum in Chennai'.
Here are some other organisations that we help either corporately or individually. We think they're awesome and encourage you to check them out.
Too easy not to do it: ripple.org - click to contribute
Christian Blind Mission - people with disabilities in developing nations
Opportunity International - microloans for a hand up
The Micah Challenge - making poverty history
TEAR Australia - justice and compassion for the poor
World Vision - feeding the very poor
International Justice Mission - fighting slavery and human trafficking
Compassion Australia - working with local churches in developing nations
Melbourne City Mission - Homeless - the homeless in our own city
Religious Liberty Mailing List - keep informed on persecution against Christians
Catalyst: End Slavery Now! - no more slavery
Voice of The Martyrs - supporting persecuted Christians
Please note these are people we're involved in supporting in some way, but the list is not exhaustive. Suggestions welcome!
“Jesus...calls us to share in his work of drawing out and dealing with the evil of the world; by loving our neighbours, both immediate and far-off, with the strong love that sent him to the cross; and by working out the implications of that love in our own vocations, whatever they may be, in our social and political action, in our relationships (and particularly our marriages and families), and in our caring for those in our midst who need the healing and restoring love of God most deeply.
We are called, as the people who claim the crucified Jesus as our Lord, to seek out the pain of the world, and, in prayer, in patient hard work, in listening, in healing, in announcing the Kingdom of this Jesus by every means possible, to take that pain into ourselves and give it over to Jesus himself, so that the world may be healed...
With the cross as the underlying story of our lives, validated by the resurrection and then implemented by the fire of the Holy Spirit, we can have the confidence to take on the world with the sovereign love of God.”
— Tom Wright
