World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals

In community with the local Church, World Relief envisions serving the most vulnerable people and seeing them transformed economically, socially and spiritually.

We practice principles of transformational development to empower local churches in the United States and around the world so they can serve the vulnerable in their communities. With initiatives in education, health, child development, agriculture, food security, anti-trafficking, immigrant services, micro-enterprise, disaster response and refugee resettlement, we work holistically with the local church to stand for the sick, the widow, the orphan, the alien, the displaced, the devastated, the marginalized, and the disenfranchised.

Disaster Response: This response takes on several forms including empowering the local church, empowering our teams already on the ground, or empowering an indigenous organization. \n\nChild Development: Children are taught about health and hygiene, and they develop important life skills – including conflict resolution – often while learning from Bible stories. \n\nMaternal & Child Health: World Relief's Care Group Model was an innovation developed by Dr. Pieter Ernst-a movement that has revolutionized community health. Training groups of 10 to 15 community health volunteers to go out and educate their neighbors; the model saturates entire communities with life-saving health messages. \n\nHIV/AIDS: World Relief works to prevent the spread of HIV by promoting abstinence and mutual fidelity in marriage, preventing mother-to-child transmission by linking pregnant women to available services, and equipping church leaders to give appropriate counsel about HIV testing and other effective ways to reduce the risk of transmission. \n\nAgriculture Development: World Relief comes alongside farmers, offering sustainable farming solutions. Teaching innovative and cost-effective agricultural methods, World Relief technicians teach farmers in Latin America and Africa about crop rotation and irrigation, and then they introduce them to national and international markets. \n\nImmigrant Legal Services: exists to empower local churches to directly serve immigrants in the context of immigrant legal services through its Home Office attorneys, field office attorneys, and field office Board of Immigration Appeals accredited representatives and support staff. \n\nMicrofinance: World Relief is a leader in the field of non-profit microfinance. Through locally governed microfinance institutions, we give small loans, training and support to hardworking individuals – mostly vulnerable women – ensnared by poverty. \n\nAnti-Trafficking: Since 2004, World Relief has partnered with law enforcement to provide comprehensive services to survivors of human trafficking in the United States. World Relief trains thousands of community members how to identify victims of trafficking every year. In addition, World Relief helped launch the Faith Alliance Against Slavery and Trafficking (FAAST), a group of Christian organizations which collaborate to design programs, curriculum and training to prevent trafficking and help survivors to rebuild their lives. \n\nRefugee Resettlement: World Relief works in partnership with the Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration and the Office of Refugee Resettlement to provide initial resettlement and placement as well as employment services, English language training, youth programs, and other integration services to refugees entering the U.S.. Church Mobilization: World Relief in the U.S. helped to launch (1) the Evangelical Immigration Table and (2) the Church-Based Immigrant Ministry Coalition.

Child Development: Our holistic educational approach is non-formal, often teaching the children through interactive play, sometimes as simple as drawing pictures in the dirt. By engaging the children, encouraging them to talk, listening to them, and giving them choices, we build bridges of trust that last a lifetime. \n\nMaternal & Child Health: World Relief's Maternal and Child Health Programs presently serve over 3.8 million people in 9 countries. \n\nHIV/AIDS: Since 2004, World Relief engaged more than 2.3 million youth in Haiti, Kenya, Mozambique and Rwanda through interactive peer-based learning to prevent HIV by building life skills and promoting healthy sexual behaviors. We also trained 53,500 volunteers to create layers of social support for youth. \n\nImmigrant Legal Services: World Relief's Home Office staff led evangelical denominations and churches in discernment of immigrant legal ministry, education surrounding church-based immigrant legal services clinics, training opportunities for church-based clinic sites and staff/volunteers, and programmatic start up and support for these sites. Home Office staff also support its field offices and works with these very experienced direct service providers to also engage the local church and provide guidance and technical support to those interested in offering their own immigrant legal clinics as an embodiment of Christ's Gospel of word and deed. \n\nMicrofinance: To date, we've empowered more than 90,000 individuals to live productive, meaningful lives. Over the years, we've seen how initial loans of just $50-$75 can launch an individual on the path to economic self-sufficiency. It helps create stability at home, teaches individuals how to thrive, and fosters self-respect and community well-being. \n\nAnti-Trafficking: World Relief helped launch the Faith Alliance Against Slavery and Trafficking (FAAST), a group of Christian organizations which collaborate to design programs, curriculum and training to prevent trafficking and help survivors to rebuild their lives. \n\nRefugee Resettlement: Over the past 40 years, World Relief has resettled over 300,000 refugees from more than 80 nations. \n\nChurch Mobilization: World Relief in the U.S. helped to launch (1) the Evangelical Immigration Table and (2) the Church-Based Immigrant Ministry Coalition. Both are nationally focused upon mobilizing thousands of pastors and churches into learning, advocacy, and service among immigrants. Church Mobilizers recruit, equip, mentor, and coordinate the ministry of church-based volunteers and teams across the country.