HIMserve

HIMserve's vision is to see communities being holistically transformed through the church living out the power of the Gospel comes from the fact that in our target areas in North Bengal, India. Over 90% of churches and 60% of mission groups are focusing only on evangelism and church planting. The people's need to be discipled, their physical needs and prevailing social problems both within the church and their local communities is grossly neglecting. In fact, the predominant belief is that the church's responsibility is confined to just the spiritual needs of people. The spiritual need has clearly been separated from social, physical and emotional needs. Trying to motivate believers to share the gospel not only in words but also in deeds has often been like hitting a wall. But we in HIMserve are convinced that this is the church's mandate from scripture and such churches are definitely the need of the hour for the communities in North Bengal. Our overall strategy is one where we would like to work in the background and have the church in the foreground. We are convinced that the church should play a leadership role in its community. We work in partnership with churches that express a genuine desire to learn more about and live out the church's God given mandate to practice holistic mission. We organize wholistic mission teaching for the church leaders of followed by the baseline survey and spiritual leadership trainings. We want to see the church become increasingly relevant to the rest of the community in which it belongs and live out its mandate to be salt and light in this world. We want to see the church members as well as the community in which they live in benefit spiritually, economically, socially and emotionally. What we desire is that when the people of the wider community benefit in any way, it should be seen as having come through the initiative and efforts of the church, not HIMserve.