Richard Stearns was President of World Vision USA for 20 years. In this in-depth interview with Premier Christianity's Sam Hailes, he talks about his unexpected calling into the ministry and how he felt completely unprepared and ill-equipped for the role. "I knew nothing about poverty and I remember saying 'Lord I don't know what to do'. It was almost like the Lord said to me 'that's exactly where I want you - dependent on me." Richard also explains how he was able to generate millions of dollars in fundraising for the charity, why Donald Trump's "rhetoric" around refugees has hurt their work and the various challenges which Covid-19 has brought. Richard says the many good news stories about the reduction in poverty are "too often untold". For example, the number of children dying from preventable causes has halved in the past 25 years he says, explaining that he believe
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30/04/2021 Read Archbishop Justin s article for Premier Christianity magazine:
By the waters of Babylon – there we sat down and there we wept when we remembered Zion.” (Psalm 137:1, NRSV).
In exile, in a strange, unrecognisable land, the Israelites longed to return to the familiar home they knew and loved. They looked forward to the day they could go back to the land God had promised them.
How many of us have wept this past year as we remembered our normal lives, which now seem so distant? How many people have suffered loss, grief or the pain of separation?
But the Israelites also knew that, when they returned, things couldn’t go back to ‘normal’. They couldn’t go on as they had been. The prophets had warned them of the greed, the lack of faithfulness, the sin that had led to their separation from God.