How Christians Can Help

I was deeply moved by a documentary on television recently about education in Afghanistan. Sitting among the other children outside because of the lack of a building for a school, a young girl said that she hoped that one day she could become a teacher. As I watched, my thoughts drifted to the history of the Christian missionary movement around the world where dedicated missionaries tried to help, but often got caught in local political and cultural conflicts. We have gradually learned that fixing things is part of continuing creation and it is not as easy as it often seems.

As Christians we need to do what we can to help that young girl in Afghanistan and other children around the world as well, but do it by using our creativity and learning from past experience. We can provide financial and physical resources in a fairly straightforward manner, but we also need to teach them to solve their problems by teamwork.

All of the children of the world were created and cared for by God. We don’t need to force all our religious traditions upon them, but we do need to teach them to love and care for each other and God’s creation. God’s grace in the form of forgiveness for our sins is God’s gift to us and we need to make them aware that it is also God’s gift to them to make them more functional team members. The spirit of Christ will continue to lead us in our efforts.

Peace is found in prayer
Robert C. Frank
Author of the book, Christ’s Team
See: http://www.christsteam.com