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.
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ADVOCATES
127 equips western Christians in best practices for vulnerable community care so that their partnership empowers vulnerable communities to flourish.
Discover EQUIP Plan resources for Advocates...
5 Steps to Serving Others Well
A distinctive of 127 Worldwide is that we believe all relationships are mutually-edifying. We are not the experts with knowledge
What a Candid Photo Taught Me About Human Dignity
Have you ever done something on a mission trip that, upon looking back, makes you feel sick to your stomach?
What a Candid Photo Taught Me About Human Dignity
Have you ever done something on a mission trip that, upon looking back, makes you feel sick to your stomach?
4 Ways to Avoid a Savior Complex
The deeper we dive into how a hero mentality can creep into ministry, the more we recognize how wrong motives
Six Harmful Consequences of a Savior Mentality
Ryan Kuja, author of From the Inside Out: Reimagining Mission, Recreating the World, delves deeply into the “hero mentality” to
127’s Commitment to Human Dignity
At 127 Worldwide, we believe that the image of God in people requires something of us. The Bible teaches that
Be Their Guest
If you do a quick google search of “voluntourism”, links to some horrifying stories of child exploitation are likely to
Handling Handouts
We’ve all driven past a homeless person holding a sign at an intersection or been asked by a stranger for
Introduction to Human Dignity
Supporting human dignity seems like one of those obvious things that shouldn’t require serious reflection. We all believe people deserve
Paternalism
When Helping Hurts, by Steve Corbett and Brian Fikkert, has shaped much of the way 127 Worldwide interacts with vulnerable
Resist Simplistic Solutions
Western do-gooders need to resist the allure of 'exotic problems' This article published in The Guardian hits us where it
We’re All Poor
People from all worldviews and religions have tried to alleviate poverty. The desire to improve the quality of life for
Tips to Protect Human Dignity as You Travel
A team of Ugandan women offer seven practical tips for engaging with another culture that might not be obvious to
The Image of God
127 Worldwide’s approach to caring for vulnerable communities is rooted in a belief in the imago dei, or the image
Join God At Work
This video does an excellent job of introducing how a commitment to human dignity informs the way Christians see material
These People Have Names
In her article “‘These People’ Have Names”, Heather Reynolds of Experience Mission presents a seemingly innocent way that a hero
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
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