Chicago's Willow Creek Church is spending "Christmas On Location" in three needy places – Zambia, Gulf Coast, and Mexico – to see where the congregation back home can help with cash and kind donations.
The megachurch, known as a model for seeker-sensitive services, has been in the lead as an evangelical church committed to social concerns, such as AIDS (Zambia), natural disasters (Gulf Coast), and outreach to the Latino community (Mexico).
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"Many world leaders have called the global HIV/AIDS pandemic the greatest humanitarian crisis in history,” according to a statement published online by Willow Creek. "It is, without question, the greatest widow and orphan-maker in history."
Nearly 40 million people are infected with AIDS worldwide, 25 million of them in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Hybels hopes that the church will help, and plans to make his church a model for others.
“The church is the hope of the world," he said previously.
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Willow Creek is also interested in transferring the creative outreaches from Latin America to their own Latino ministry in Greater Chicago, now home to 1.6 million Latinos, the largest minority in greater Chicago.
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Last year, Global Connection's work in Africa and Latin America received $710,000 from Willow Creek's congregants.
For the entire story, click on the link in the title. To read more about Global Connections and to find out how last year's donations were spent, click here.
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