Category: Invisible Category

Natural disasters are inevitable, and unnatural disasters are helpless. What believers can do is lend a helping hand in times of difficulty and live the gospel. Whenever a disaster occurs, CEDAR adopts the method of ‘funding first, then fundraising’ – first remit the funds needed for the rescue project to partners in the disaster area so that the victims can receive assistance as soon as possible and simultaneously appeal to believers to contribute. This will prevent the frontline rescue work from being affected by the level of fundraising. If we raise more funds than we have allocated, we can allocate more funds according to the needs of the victims so that more victims can receive practical help. Since

Matthew chapter 25, verses 31 to 46, talks about the rules of God’s judgment, including whether we have cared for hungry, sick, or naked people. Taking care of the physical needs of people with low incomes is no less than their spiritual needs. CEDAR set up a savings group in slum areas and established a small loan fund. Villagers participating in the group can start small businesses with loans and improve their livelihoods in the long run, which is more effective than one-off relief assistance. Livelihood Development Projects Online Donation Download Monthly Donation Form donation method (Please specify: ‘Development & Advocacy’)

What is the mission of the church? Apart from preaching the gospel and making disciples of Christ, what else should the church do? The church is a part of the community. For community residents, what role does the church play? Is the church dispensable for non-believers? For a long time, CEDAR has cared about the poor we help and promoted Integral Mission, nurturing and encouraging churches, Christian institutions, and believers to live out what we believe in, preaching and practising and witnessing the gospel’s power in the community. Church and Community Mobilisation Projects Online Donation Download Monthly Donation Form donation method (Please specify: ‘Development & Advocacy’)

The First World War, the Second World War, Syria has been in a state of war for many years… The fights between humankind have never stopped. Talking about peace and reconciliation is like a fairy tale. However, the Lord’s requirement is: ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’; and ‘Love your neighbour as yourself.’ (Luke 10:27). In this turbulent era, we must do our best to bring peace to the community. CEDAR promotes ‘Peace and Reconciliation projects, hoping that people of different ethnicities and religions can live peacefully in the same world. ‘love your enemies and pray for those who persecute

‘God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day. Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array.’ (Genesis 1:31 – 2:1) The public’s concept of poverty alleviation is to help the poor get over difficulties and improve their living conditions. From the perspective of Christianity, the Lord value not only human. This is because He sees everything He created as good and everything in the world as His masterpiece. In this case, except for humans, the things we care about are the place, animals and plants created by Him. Due to the greed of humans, they abuse the resources on

  “It takes ten years nurture a tree, but a hundred years to train a man”, nurturing a child requires a lot of resources and responsibilities. Children not only grow up at home, but also at schools, churches, communities and etc., these places affect a lot on whether children can grow up healthily. In many poor countries, some children do not have parents, teachers, schoolmates and pastors in church. They are regarded as the lowest slave in the society and even as a “goods”. CEDAR meet children in different countries, some are people with AIDs, some are the victims of child marriage, some are refugees, some are children grown up under war. CEDAR’s work included improving children’s families’

‘For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.’ (John 3:16) Jesus Christ was nailed to the cross and sacrificed for us, reflecting the Lord’s love for us and the importance he attaches to us. However, humans hate each other and even regard lower social status and poor people as goods, using various bullying methods such as coercion, abduction and deception to trade and sell people on the global market. Today, human trafficking and forced labour have become major global issues, growing at an alarming rate. According to the 2024 Global Report on Trafficking in Persons by the United Nations Office