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Our Values
These are our core values:
- Christ first and only (Col. 2:9-10). Christian leadership must be built on and in union with the Person of Jesus Christ.
- The Word of God is Truth (2 Tim. 3:16-17). All our models and practices must be based solidly upon the Scriptures.
- The importance of community (Eph. 4:13-16). Healthy leaders are built in community and they lead in supporting and accountable community.
- We must stand with the suffering (Is. 1:17; Heb. 13:3). We choose to go to the hard places to strengthen the suffering.
- Integrity (2 Cor. 6:3). Ultimately, God is more interested in who we are than in what we do.
- Humility (Phil. 2:3-11). The cross precedes the crown.
- Servanthood (Phil. 2:20-21). Our goal is not to control but to support and assist.
- Strategic purpose (John 5:19). There is so much waste today in Christian work. We need to do the right things the right way.
- Courage (Josh. 1:6-9). We are prepared to challenge the status quo in the pursuit of God's highest.
These are our guiding principles of ministry:
- We work in partnership with existing national organizations and movements.
- We seek to empower and leverage national leaders.
- We focus on influencing and equipping as opposed to funding and organizing.
- We seek to understand and build upon what God is already doing in the nations.
- We network key international leaders together so church movements will be positioned to help other church movements.
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out where the strong man stumbled or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred with dust and sweat and blood. At best, he knows the triumph of high achievement; if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat. (Theodore Roosevelt)
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