We understand service and missions

to be essential to authentic Christian faith but also recognize that we often don't know how to truly minister. Therefore we will endeavor to:

• Challenge participants to view ministry as a lifestyle inseparable from their Christian faith and, therein, seek to establish and/or deepen their walk with God.
• a) be genuinely and practically helpful to local people, and b) develop a deepened understanding of Christ, faith, service, and evangelism.
• Help participants to process their experiences and become aware of issues of: mutuality, listening, importance of relationship, and causes of poverty as it relates to caring for and about God's people and creation.
• Challenge participants to consider one week of ministry per year as insufficient, encouraging them to explore full-time missions/service as a natural outworking of their faith to be exercised both at home and away.

Prayerfully, 1 John 3:17,18 (see our home page) and these statements will guide all aspects of the SWAP program, from the choice of clients we serve, to the actual work at local sites, the recruitment and selection of staff and the content of our evening worship and teaching sessions.