International Justice Mission is the greatest organization in the world, hands down. It infinitely surpassed all of my (very high) expectations on day 1. I spent the entire day learning about the spiritual foundations of the organization with 64 new IJM interns, fellows, and employees that are about to be scattered throughout the world for the sake of the Lord, the sake of the poor and oppressed, and the sake of justice. We took a break to eat lunch with our new friends, all of whom are very well accomplished and very eager to use their gifts to advance the Kingdom, and another break to share our own stories, stories of the Lord’s grace in our lives and stories of His calling us to justice work through IJM.
And we ended with a state fair themed welcome party at our headquarters. What a day.
“It is exceedingly strange that any follower of Jesus Christ should ever have needed to ask whether social involvement was their concern.” -John Stott.
