Our motive
We are called to walk in his footsteps
We’re compelled to love others because we have experienced God’s great love for us and known it’s transformative power.
700 million people worldwide live in extreme poverty
Poverty is when your resources fall below your minimum needs. It means not being able to afford rent, food, or other essentials for you or your children. It means waking up each day facing insecurity, uncertainty and impossible decisions. It means marginalisation and discrimination.
Poverty is not just about money. Poverty is a relational and spiritual issue too. That’s why we spend so much time building relationships with people, and enabling them to solve problems themselves, together in groups. And it’s why we are so desperate for people to encounter the life transforming power of Jesus!
“Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another” (1 John 4:11)
It’s all about love! As a response to God’s great love for us – and how that love transforms our lives – we love others, and we also want them to experience God’s transforming love. God’s love for us isn’t abstract, it’s deeply practical. That is why, when we go out into communities, we want to demonstrate a deeply practical love that ‘looks like something’.
We love, because we’re loved
It’s not difficult to work out what love looks like in impoverished communities. To those who are starving, it’s food. To those who are sick, love looks like medicine. To those who are lonely, it simply looks like time. Love looks like many different things, but it always looks like something.
But loving someone isn’t just about providing them with strength for today, it’s about giving them hope for tomorrow too. That’s why our life groups are about enabling people to build a brighter, more hopeful future – physically, relationally, and spiritually. Then, just as God’s love motivated us to love them, when they experience God’s love for themselves, in then motivates them to love others!