In the inner city, if you can't touch it, you can't use it; if it doesn't help you survive — then it isn't real. Don't talk about "hope" unless you can demonstrate it.
That's why Here's Life partners with inner-city churches that are committed to ministering to the whole person — body, mind, and spirit.
Our Mission:
We serve and mobilize the Church to live out God's heart for the poor, so all can grow in Christ to build spiritual movements everywhere.
Our Vision:
We envision cities transformed through the hope and justice of the gospel.
Our Values:
- Christ Centered — Start, stay and end with Christ in everything we do.
- City Focused — Called to the poor in the city.
- Church-Based Partnerships — Work with churches and ministries in healthy relationships.
- Wholistic — Transformation of the whole person.
- Biblical Justice and Mercy — Live out God’s heart for the poor and oppressed.
- Leadership Development — Invest in the growth and development of leaders.
- Diversity — Learn from and celebrate all ethnicities, cultures and classes.
- Equipping — Resourcing the body of Christ to do evangelism and discipleship.
- Transferable — Design resources and strategies that equip people to equip others.
"... if you spend yourselves in behalf of the hungry and satisfy the needs the oppressed, then your light will rise in the darkness, and your night will become like the noonday. The LORD will guide you always; he will satisfy your needs in a sun-scorched land and will strengthen your frame. You will be like a well-watered garden, like a spring whose waters never fail. Your people will rebuild the ancient ruins and will raise up the age-old foundations; you will be called Repairer of Broken Walls, Restorer of Streets with Dwellings." Isaiah 58:10-12 NIV
*Boston skyline photo above taken by Oscar Soto. Used by kind permission.
