God's Mercy on Display

ACTION exists to make Christ known and to proclaim His excellencies. The ACTION Emergency Relief Team is often presented with dire physical needs stemming from floods, droughts, cyclones, landslides, and disasters of all kinds. We then present these needs to you, ACTION’s prayer and financial partners. However, like the Apostle Paul (who took up collections for the saints in Jerusalem that would bless both the giver and the recipient), the alleviation of physical needs is not the ultimate purpose of our ministry; we aim to proclaim the goodness of Jesus Christ and Him crucified.  

Just this month, we learned how the Emergency Relief ministry was able to assist an ACTION worker in Southeast Asia, who went into an unreached area and met the physical needs of the locals enduring the effects of a natural disaster exacerbated by COVID lockdowns. This pastor was asked, “Why are you doing this when the religious people [those of the predominant religions] and the government are not?” From that work flowed interest meetings and then the formation of a church in an area where a Gospel witness had not previously existed. We pray this news gladdens your heart as it did ours. If our only goal was to alleviate physical needs, any number of charities could do the work and quite probably do it better. We, however, seek to give Living Water and the Bread of Life, so that men and women, boys and girls, might never again thirst or hunger. Praise God for this work and for your partnership in it!

• Praying for our ACTION field workers, who are faithful to serve and counsel the people who God places before them.
• Pray for new churches to grow up and be a light in hard places as a result of relief ministries.
• Pray for wisdom, as funding is sometimes difficult to deliver to our field workers in a timely manner.