Macro-compassion projects from the West tend to swallow up micro-compassion lifestyles for the Rest. Compassion in the hands of the few on behalf of the many is extremely limiting. How can we help to reverse this syndrome and make compassion every Christ follower’s natural rhythm of life in their micro-spaces, thus becoming a global movement?
While serving with a Christian humanitarian organization in South Sudan, I worked with a Dinka man named Abijek who lived in a nearby village. He was employed by the organization to keep an eye on the goings-on in and around the compound where our team was based, which was comprised of little more than a flimsy straw fence surrounding the camping tents where we slept, four or five mud huts known as tukuls, and two white canvas storage tents used to store program supplies.
DNA can be a bit of a faddish buzzword these days. What is the DNA of your group? Your organization? Though perhaps the word is becoming a bit overused, the concept has validity as we look at multiplication.
I encourage you to learn the language until it hurts. And when it hurts, don’t give up; push through.
Jesus bled red for the Jew, for the Burmese, for the Ethiopian, for the man, and for the woman.
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