{"id":27107,"date":"2015-10-25T21:13:43","date_gmt":"2015-10-26T04:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldvision.org\/?p=27107"},"modified":"2018-08-31T18:19:17","modified_gmt":"2018-09-01T01:19:17","slug":"helping-church-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.worldvision.org\/christian-faith-news-stories\/helping-church-church","title":{"rendered":"Helping the church be the church"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>I&rsquo;ll never forget&nbsp;my conversation with&nbsp;Pastor Morgan Chilulu seven years&nbsp;ago about how his church was transforming&nbsp;lives in Kamfinsa, Zambia.&nbsp;Christian Family Church &mdash; with only 120 members, a few wooden pews,&nbsp;and a single light bulb hanging from the corrugated tin ceiling &mdash; was caring for&nbsp;widows, orphans, the sick, and everyone&nbsp;in the town affected by <a href=\"\/health-news-stories\/hiv-and-aids-facts\">AIDS<\/a>.&nbsp;That day, Pastor Chilulu taught me an&nbsp;incredible lesson about the church.<\/p>\n<p>Christian Family Church provides&nbsp;meals, counseling, childcare, home&nbsp;cleaning, and basic medical care. They&nbsp;connect the sick with hospitals and&nbsp;government services. At the time of our&nbsp;conversation, the AIDS crisis was ravaging&nbsp;communities like his. Their care&nbsp;was incredibly effective, and so many&nbsp;people recovered that they started a&nbsp;jobs program. People who were once&nbsp;suffering on their deathbeds were ready&nbsp;to get back to work. The church started a welding business, a poultry&nbsp;farm, and a preschool, and they had dreams of a farm that could&nbsp;feed the entire community.<\/p>\n<p>Pastor Chilulu&rsquo;s efforts began after a World Vision training program&nbsp;gave him the tools to address the AIDS epidemic. Instead of&nbsp;ignoring the problem and pointing fingers, Christian Family Church&nbsp;learned to have compassion. That&rsquo;s how Pastor Chilulu discovered&nbsp;what the church should be. With profound simplicity, he told me,&nbsp;&ldquo;A church that lives within its four walls is no church at all.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"pullquote pullquote--full\">We are therefore Christ&rsquo;s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ&rsquo;s behalf: Be reconciled to God.<cite class=\"attribution\">&mdash;2 Corinthians 5:20 (NIV)<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<p>There are a number of ways in which World Vision works&nbsp;with churches, but one thing remains the same. Wherever World&nbsp;Vision works, we help the church be the church, and that means&nbsp;getting out of the pews and into people&rsquo;s lives.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"\/our-work\/country-profiles\/rwanda\">Rwanda<\/a>, I have seen World Vision hand over a community&nbsp;savings and lending program to a local church so they could run it.&nbsp;Elsewhere in Africa, where Christians are a minority, we are helping&nbsp;churches run kids clubs for children to have a safe place to go when&nbsp;school is out. They also learn about health and sanitation &mdash; and&nbsp;about Jesus. In <a href=\"\/our-work\/country-profiles\/bolivia\">Bolivia<\/a>, churches work hand-in-hand with our community&nbsp;development programs.<\/p>\n<p>Few things are as powerful or as compelling as a church&nbsp;that lives outside its walls. What happened to Christian Family&nbsp;Church in <a href=\"\/\/www.worldvision.org\/our-work\/country-profiles\/zambia\">Zambia<\/a> happens to churches&nbsp;in the U.S. as well. I think of Springcreek&nbsp;Church in Dallas; Life Center in Tacoma,&nbsp;Washington; or Vineyard Columbus&nbsp;in Columbus, Ohio. These churches&nbsp;are attracting new Christians and the&nbsp;attention of their communities as they&nbsp;find ways to show Jesus&rsquo; love for the hurting in their own cities and around&nbsp;the world.<\/p>\n<p>I remember during&nbsp;my visit to Armenia a few years ago talking to&nbsp;the Catholicos, the head of the country&rsquo;s Orthodox church. He told me the&nbsp;story of the church&rsquo;s persecution and near collapse at the hands of the communist&nbsp;government. The church was embattled, he told me. It&nbsp;was discriminated against and was prevented from educating the country&rsquo;s youth in the faith. By the time communism fell, the&nbsp;Armenian church was on its knees.<\/p>\n<p>The crisis in the Armenian church was an opportunity for&nbsp;World Vision to do what we seek to do around the world: Help&nbsp;and support churches in the world-changing mission given to&nbsp;them by Jesus. I hope you read <a href=\"\/christian-faith-news-stories\/armenia-faith-set-free\">this important story.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have a verse inscribed on my office wall that I read every day.&nbsp;It&rsquo;s 2 Corinthians 5:20: &ldquo;We are therefore Christ&rsquo;s ambassadors, as&nbsp;though God were making his appeal through us.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Ambassadors don&rsquo;t stay in the embassy. They get out into the&nbsp;country where they are sent, and they represent the one that sent&nbsp;them. The same is true for Christ&rsquo;s ambassadors. We can&rsquo;t live out&nbsp;our faith inside our protective walls. Our vision is for every church&nbsp;to boldly get out, clothed with &ldquo;compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience&rdquo; (Colossians 3:12). These are the kinds of compassionate&nbsp;ambassadors that change the world.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>World Vision U.S. President Rich Stearns is the author of <em>The Hole In Our Gospel<\/em> and <em>Unfinished<\/em>. 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