What We Do
Our process for engaging the vulnerable stands on three pillars: Connecting, Equipping, and Empowering. We work to connect the global church, equip partners and advocates, and empower vulnerable communities.
What We Do
Our process for engaging the vulnerable stands on three pillars: Connecting, Equipping, and Empowering. We work to connect the global church, equip partners and advocates, and empower vulnerable communities.
CONNECT
We create introductions and facilitate ongoing relationships between partners, advocates, and churches around the world through opportunities to pray, give, go, and grow.
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Many Christians want to partner with an effective local leader but don’t know who to trust or where to start. 127 introduces these Christians to our ministry partners who are already caring for the disadvantaged with excellence. Our partners are experts in the local culture and understand the complexity of the need facing their neighbors. By facilitate ongoing relationships between local leaders and western believers, we help them work together effectively so that, as the global church, we direct the giftings of the entire body of Christ toward empowering vulnerable communities to flourish.
EQUIP
We support partners through coaching & granting for specific collaborative projects aimed at empowering vulnerable communities & we provide ongoing educational and discipleship opportunities for advocates to support partners in healthy ways.
We equip our partners through coaching and trainings geared towards building Gospel-centrality, independence, and best-practices knowledge aimed at empowering vulnerable communities.
127 equips western Christians in best practices for vulnerable community care so that their partnership empowers vulnerable communities to flourish.
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Faith Without Works Won’t Work
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Thinking Biblically About Poverty Relief
Poverty relief is a complex undertaking that often requires both immediate intervention and upstream investment. Walter Strickland, Associate Vice President
Mutual Edification
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Rediscovering Our Place in the Story
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To Western Missionaries: From An African Pastor
Chopo Mwanza pastors Faith Baptist Church Riverside in Kitwe, Zambia, and his thoughts about missions in Africa provide insightful context
What is Poverty?
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3 Conclusions from Encountering the Global Church
Believing that God has gifted believers to accomplish his work in the world, 127 Worldwide has come to several conclusions.
Ministry of Presence
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Members of the Global Church
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Realistic Expectations for GO Teams
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Join God At Work
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Handling Handouts
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Six Harmful Consequences of a Savior Mentality
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Why Local is Best
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Interview with Peter Abungu
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Recognizing Our Own Shortcomings
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Spiritual and Physical Transformation
As 127 collaborates with our partners to address the root causes of family-fracturing, poverty, and other evidences of brokenness, we
How Justice Work Speaks Good News
Caring for vulnerable communities is like putting a billboard up for the gospel. It shouts “something’s wrong here” and “there’s
EMPOWER
Through local leaders, we aim to provide vulnerable communities with the tools to use their God-given potential to meet the spiritual and physical needs of their community.
We focus on empowerment in 3 ways
- We empower advocates to join what God is doing by serving local leaders effectively
- We empower partners to maximize their gospel work through collaboration with the global church
- Working through local leaders, we empower vulnerable communities with the gospel to flourish as God intended
