COME TOGETHER
EVERYONE COUNTS. KINDNESS MATTERS. LOVE STILL WINS.
Cutbacks in humanitarian aid have caused more than a half a million deaths in just a few months, two thirds of whom are children. Refugees and immigrants are not just being turned away at our borders, they are being hunted, dehumanized and incarcerated without due process. Kids are being separated from their parents.
Our long-held commitment to compassion is under threat today. Some people are calling empathy a sin. Yet what the world needs most is love. Not just any love. Not the flimsy, fair-weather kind, exclusive and tribal. No, the kind of love Martin Luther King, Jr. talked about — the willingness to serve with reciprocation, to suffer without retaliation, to reconcile without domination. Everyone counts. Enemies too.
The problem with Jesus is that he doesn’t let us choose who we love.
“Hope is a passion for the possible.”
Together International is less about an organization and more about an invitation. “My humanity is bound up in yours,” said Desmond Tutu, “we can only be human together.” Impossibilities are overcome when people come together. When “us and them” categories give way to friendship. When all of us are committed to our own change, even as we seek to bring change.
The imperative to love God and neighbor has not changed. Nor has doing justice, loving mercy, and walking humbly. Either we believe all people are made in the image of God, or we don’t. Either we consider ourselves followers of Jesus first, and citizens of countries second, or we don’t.
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MISSION VENTURE FUND
Ministry startups serve thousands of people in some of the most challenging places in the world. The Mission Venture Fund brings together visionaries with mission entrepreneurs to strengthen and scale startups through seed-funding, coaching and capacity building.
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ROOTED AND RISING
Rooted and Rising is a trauma-informed curriculum for strengthening individual and community resilience in New American communities. It is evidence-based, grounded in neuroscience, and designed to be culturally adaptable across diverse contexts.
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COME TOGETHER
Through the Together Community, we are exploring how we may support friends around the world who feel our long-held commitment to compassion is under threat, and who want to seriously consider the question, “Who is my neighbor?”
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ONE MILLION THUMBPRINTS
One Million Thumbprints (1MT) isupports local partners in the Middle East and Africa to Increase resilience in women and girls affected by, or vulnerable to, violence from war and conflict.
