ServLife is a movement defined by values of God’s kingdom, not programs built around human efforts and activities. The reign and rule of God should be made apparent to every person on the planet, despite their religion, race or socioeconomic status. We believe that issues of justice are inseparable from the good news that Jesus Christ came to proclaim.
ServLife International exists to take the gospel of Christ and the hope of a better, more just, world to the lives of people we touch. This happens through individual contributions of time, creativity, resources and dreams.
We believe in exploring how God may be extending His kingdom through the dreams of others and how, by His Spirit, we can see these ideas become reality. Our constant aim is to live out the way of Jesus in a world filled with disease, death and, oftentimes, despair. Through our missional community, we work much like the early apostles did – facilitating, enlisting, and enabling followers of God to advance the whole gospel to the whole person around the world. Here’s how this happens:
- We are brokers - We aim to match needs of the developing world with resources shared from the affluence of the developed world.
- We are implementers – In the face of need, we choose action rather than observation since faith without expression is meaningless.
- We are artists – We embrace creativity, knowing that our Creator uses innovation and beauty to inspire and mobilize to action. As Henry David Thoreau wrote, “This world is but a canvas to our imaginations.â€
- We are strategists – We work intentionally for the best and most enduring solutions, not what’s easy or status quo.
- We are storytellers – We long to see the ancient story of Jesus Christ told to those who have yet to hear and re-told to those who may have overlooked it.
- We are poets – Not concerned with rhyme, rhythm, or meter, but language and action that moves like Bob Gibson’s fast ball, that jumps at the right moment, that breaks open old worlds with surprise, abrasion, and pace. To evoke a different world, a new song, a fresh move, a new identity, a being at home to those who live on the edge of despair, hopelessness, and conformity. Being poets that lead to shattering, evoking speech (and action) that breaks fixed conclusions and presses us always toward new, dangerous, imaginative possibilities. (Source: Walter Brueggemann)
- We are evangelists – Desiring to announce, articulate, and affirm the good news of the Kingdom of God to all people in the world.
- We are social activists – We care for, and work to sustain, the social basics and good of society in the name of Jesus Christ.
- We are advocates of the forgotten – We are a voice for those who remain unheard. Love means to love that which is unlovable. Otherwise it is no virtue at all. (Source: G. K. Chesterton).
- We are kingdom advocates with a local church commitment - We seek always to advance the kingdom of God, called by the late bishop Leslie Newbigin the greatest cause of all, while remaining in the community and context of the local church.
- We are entrepreneurs – An entrepreneur is a certain kind of economic actor, someone who, shifts resources from one area of lower productivity into another area of higher productivity. Twentieth century growth economist Joseph Schumpeter characterized the entrepreneur as the source of creative destruction necessary for major economic advances. We shift, reallocate and engage in meaningful deconstructing as needed.
