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Courageous Leadership Award: WCA Leadership Summit
By Jeremy | August 13, 2007
At last year's Summit, Bill Hybels and Richard Stearns of World Vision announced the "Courageous Leadership Award," a $100,000 cash grant to a church whose innovative response to the global AIDS pandemic would serve as a model for churches around the world. True to their word, they presented three finalists and announced the winner before Colin Powell's session. (Colin Powell has called HIV/AIDS the single worst weapon of mass destruction he has ever encountered.) They also announced that World Vision's 2008 award would be matched dollar-for-dollar by a private businessman ($200K total), with the possibility of additional matches.
Responding to AIDS can and will be "the Church's finest hour" ...
The Finalists
+ First: "Living Hope Community Community Centre," from Fish Hoek Baptist Church, Capetown, South Africa; Pastor John Thomas; because they have become "Dealers in Hope" through building a health center that employs 150 in addressing the pandemic holistically among children who "trade their virginity [and health] for a sit-down meal at McDonald's." + Runner-up: "UZIMA" (Swahili for wholeness), from Rockland Community Church, Golden CO; Pastor Ken Williams; because they are "unusually capable of listening to their partners" in Tanzania. + Runner-up: "Save Africa's Children," from West Los Angeles COGIC; Pastor Bishop Charles Blake; because they have recruited over 1,200 churches and raised $12 million to provide care to 100,000 AIDS orphans so far. RELATED + Joshua Firor, youth pastor of Crossroads Christian Church in Brooklyn, preached about the global AIDS pandemic this Sunday and challenged the congregation with practical ways to respond. + World Vision's article about the Courageous Leadership Award.Topics: aids, courageous leadership award, leadership, willowcreek, world vision | No Comments »
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