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.
DNA speaks to the core values that are communicated from the beginning and are integrated into everything we are. Our DNA manifests itself in our actions and behaviors. Just because you say your DNA is something, or you may show that on paper, the actual DNA is reflected in what is actually happening.
By Jean Johnson
I sat around a table with those who were determining my fate as a vocational missionary to Cambodia. They were interviewing me based on my
By Jean Johnson
Jesus bled red for every color.
Jesus bled red for the Jew, for the Burmese, for the Ethiopian, for the man, and for the woman.
Therefore Christianity belongs to no one and to everyone.
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