Evangelical students committed to working with the poor

VIÇOSA, Brasil, January 26, 2006

Young people who participated in Mission 2006, the Student Missionary Congress of the Biblical University Taxi Heathrow Airport of Brazil Alliance (ABUB) committed themselves to working "intimately with the poor, with fugitive pilgrims in wars, with the slaves of the systems and the ideologies," emphasizing God's love for humanity.

Mission 2006 met in the Federal University of Viçosa, Minas Gerais, from January 3 - 8 under the theme "Hope lives in Jesus." The official letter of the event entitled "Responding to the call: the beginning of our new walk" was published this week.

Nine hundred university student and recent graduates from more than 130 cities in Brazil and 16 countries in America, Africa and Europe participated in the Congress.

 "We understand that the failure of the Church is also our failure. We perceive that we have lived a rachitic and sickly Gospel that converts us into a conformist and passive mass," the young people said in the letter.

However, despite everything, the love of God trains us for the missions and His grace makes us stand. The event helped them understand that "a body cannot be healthy if only some of its organs prosper."

The young people committed themselves to struggle for a united Church, to rethink the type of Gospel they are living, to establish dialogue with society, to struggle for justice and to convert to Jesus of Nazareth to living Christianity "simple, practical that brings us hope."

The members of ABUB were challenged to find our "brothers in places where, for our limitations, the Gospel has still not reached them" and left the Congress committed to proclaiming the Gospel to those who are excluded for economic or social reasons, for illness or because they think differently.