A New Mission

I read an article in Relevant Mag today about Gary Haugen with the International Justice Mission. IJM is a human rights agency that rescues victims of violence, sexual exploitation, slavery, and oppression. Here are some clips from the article.

Haugen predicts that this generation's spiritual calling will focus on the concepts of biblical justice, instead of evangelism and compassion work of the past.

To really care for the poor, you need to start with justice, Haugen says, Just as the world is figuring that out, the body of Christ is also figuring out that missions is not just about evangelism and discipleship or relief and development, but it's about the work of justice."

This is the great work of this generation.

One of Gary's inspirations to get involved in this was a trip to Rwanda after the genocide in the early '90s. In his mind this genocide in which racial tension led to 800,000 people being slaughtered in 8 weeks, was preventable. Watch the movie Hotel Rwanda to see more on this incident. To find out more about displaced children in war torn nations check out Invisible Children. Or to find out ways to help fight the Aids pandemic that is killing thousands of Africans a day check out the bloodwater mission.