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su 3 hjmmikwi fs emmanuel international celebrates 20 from where i live bruce stapley what may be the worlds only nongovernment orga nization with an international headquarters in canada held an open house last sunday afternoon to celebrate 20 years of visionary corporate thinking but while most corporation with global interests are the ones pulling the strings in the countries in which they set up shop emmanuel iriternational el prefers to assume a subservient position ever since george middleton founded the grass roots missions operation located on stouffville rd near kennedy rd the aim was to prepare people to serve under the direction of local churches in third world countries ravaged by natural disaster two decades later middleton has been proved to be a visionary his son mark who has taken over the inter national director ship from his father takes pride in telling how ei has stuck to its original mandate of being a global churchbased christian humanitarian aid orga nization which trains people for holistic ministry in contrast with the traditional missions stereotype held by so many ei hasnt set out to send enlightened western aid workers to choreograph rescue operations overseas instead its philosophy centres around win ning the respect and trust of the local people by giving them equal input into how best to ease the suffering only by establishing an equal partnership with those being helped can an organization hope to bring about lasting change according to ei thinking with six offices world wide el is attempting to change the face of christianity by refusing to allow bor ders and cultural differences to come in the way of believers committed to global relief it points to the vast changes in the church over the past 20 years changes which have resulted in a significant shift of both church membership and credibility from the western world to the third world whereas the christian humanitarian aid missions field was once considered the domain of western based missions agencies the job is now being equally divided among churches around the world witnessing first hand the success of the el program world wide mark middleton insists he has had his own faith reshaped along with his understanding of the true nature of humanitarian aid and its biblical basis he has looked into the heart of darkness worldwide and seen the dramatic transformation of people who once contributed only misery and suffering to the third world and its problems he has also come to see that its not just peasants and poor farmers who find themselves in need of assistance from countries that are so richly blessed he recalls how surprised he was to travel to the sudanese refugee camps and find doctors lawyers and paaoa yorkdale shopping centre toronto 416 7895418 scarborough town centre scarborough 416 29601 12 markville shopping centre markham 905 4752795 pickering town centre pickering 905 8315599 square one mississauga 905 8961316 mapleview mall burlington 905 6341040 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