Challenging every evangelical to love their neighbour:
"'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbour as yourself.' All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments." Matthew 22:37-39
Elim Ministries Ireland:
The Whole Gospel for the Whole Person for the Whole of Ireland www.elim.ie
Focus on the Family:
Helping Families Thrive www.family.ie
Greater Europe Mission
Being disciples, and multiplying local communities of disciple makers. Greater Europe Mission
Irish Association of Christian Counselors
Established for the purpose of setting standards and evaluating competencies of counsellors working from a Christian perspective and provides a national register of accredited Christian counsellors. www.iacc.ie
Irish Bible Institute
We want to see our students living lives motivated by love, informed by God's Word and committed to Christ. www.irishbibleinstitute.org
Jobcare
Caring for Your Future
Jobcare helps people find jobs by providing training, resources, expertise and opportunities for personal development. www.jobcare.ie
Oasis of Love Ministries
Our mission is to worship God, win the lost, make disciples, live holy and sanctified as we walk in our inheritance. www.oasisofloveministries.com
OM Ireland
Passionate about seeing lives and communities transformed in Ireland and all over the world. We inspire and equip Irish people to make a real and lasting difference through reconciliation, transformation and mobilisation. www.ie.om.org
Plumbline Ministries Ireland
'A Family of Churches and Ministries in Ireland: Establishing new churches and strengthening existing ones Plubmline ministries
World Harvest Mission Ireland
Movements of churches empowered by grace for the world’s good and God’s glory www.whm.org
World Partners
Working Together to Bring Enduring Change www.wpartners.org
Massive earthquake strikes Haiti on 12th January
Hundreds of people are missing feared dead after a quake measuring seven on the Richter Scale struck the Caribbean island yesterday.
Many buildings have been destroyed or badly damaged in the capital Port-au-Prince, including the presidential palace and the five-storey UN offices. As darkness fell last night, fear of after-shocks led many people to spend the evening sleeping out in the open.
Jean-Claude Cerin, Tearfund’s Country Representative for Haiti, who is based in Port-au-Prince is among thousands of people whose homes have been damaged or destroyed. Tearfund has been working with it’s partners to provide immediate relief to the injured and homeless.
As the recession bites, instinct tells us to hold tight to every penny
we've got, and dream of the stuff we can buy when it's over.
But Jesus challenged us not to worry about money, but to think first of the
needs of others.
Simplify is a call to discipleship; to examine the spiritual hold money has
on our lives.
For one month, think about this.
Challenge yourself to live on the amount of money you would receive if
you were on benefits.
If we do that, we'll learn how to Simplify—to
make the most of our time, relationships and money—from people who
already live on less.
What if we gave away the money we save to support those who
have no other options?!
Join us in October as we Simplify our lives.
“Simplify” originated with the
Evangelical Alliance in the UK, as
an initiative to Love Your Neighbour in the area of finance.
EAI now has some Ireland-specific
info up on our website. For
Guidelines for Churches, click here . For a template for doing the necessary
figures for Simplify, click here (pdf)
The hearts of Irish people are heavy with grief over the abuse revealed recently in the Ryan Report.EAI General Director Seán Mullan responds to the news in his most recent blogs… click here.
The LORD is near to the broken-hearted; and saves those who are crushed in spirit. Ps. 34:18
Love Your Neighbour March 2009 Launch
EAI kicks off its Love Your Neighbour initiative, 2nd March, 2009.“We want to instigate conscious acts of kindness in Ireland throughout 2009 and help reverse the trend to individualism in our society” Sean Mullan (General Director EAI). Evangelical Alliance Ireland is calling for a renewed vigour by all Christians, churches and organisations to make real the love of Christ in Ireland on at least one ‘love your neighbour’ issue each month. You know best what your community needs most to experience the love of Christ in action.”For stories of what other Christians have done, see Stories;for creative ideas,see sidebar under Community Ideas. Visit the new Love Your Neighbour website at www.loveyourneighour.ie.
“Around the world, a remarkable consensus is emerging that the solution to the isolation of the church lies in rediscovering the fullness of the gospel as both “good news” and “good deeds”. It is through selfless service that we demonstrate the church’s relevance to our society and build bridges over which good news can travel. Service also ignites the passion of our people and is the path to spiritual growth and a healthier church! (Eph. 4:11-13).” says Howard Webb, of Love Your Neighbour Network in New Zealand.
“But today, many people are disconnected from their neighbours. The interwoven relationships that hold our society are in the process of unravelling. What response can evangelical churches bring to the present decline in community? Seán Mullan helps to work out such a response…
“There remains an experience of incomparable value ... to see the great events of world history from below; from the perspective of the outcast, the suspects, the maltreated, the powerless, the oppressed, the reviled -- in short, from the perspective of those who suffer ... to look with new eyes on matters great and small. “ Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Letters and Papers from Prison
“He raises up the poor from the dust; he lifts the needy from the ash heap, to make them sit with princes and inherit a seat of honour. For the pillars of the earth are the Lord's, and on them he has set the world.” 1 Samuel 2:8.
Community Alert
Evangelical Christians and the Civil Partnership Bill 2009
The Irish Government has published a Bill that will establish Civil Partnerships for same sex couples to give them rights, obligations and protections once they are registered with the state. In response to this Evangelical Alliance Ireland has just produced a four page paper. Read this document HERE
Reflections on the EAI Civil Partnership paper above Following our publishing the above paper we had a significant variation in feedback and decided to do a reflection on the document and the feedback. Read this reflection HERE
