Christian Reformed World Missions works with numerous partners at the Nehemiah Center to:
Develop leaders - with a special focus on ministry with women and youth, they train pastors and other leaders with an integral biblical worldview, pastors who are competent, trustworthy, and committed to following Jesus Christ.
Promote reconciliation and justice - they seek to be agents of reconciliation and promoters of justice within the family, church, communities, and societies in which they live and serve.
Christian Reformed World Missions established the Nehemiah Center in partnership with CRWRC and several other organizations. The Nehemiah Center is a community of service and learning which trains lay and pastoral leaders in an integral, biblical worldview and encourages local, national, and international collaboration for Christ-centered, transformational development of communities and nations.
The Nehemiah Center has several strategies:
Disciple key Christian leaders to be agents of personal and societal transformation based on an integral, biblical worldview.
Promote the formation of associations of Christian leaders for the transformation of churches, schools, businesses, government, and the media based on an integral, biblical worldview.
Facilitate collaboration between local Christian leaders for the spiritual, economic, and social progress of their communities, training them how to use the tools of transformational community development.
Link Christians in Nicaragua with Christians in other countries for mutual growth and learning and the sharing of time, ideas, and resources.
CRWM and CRWRC have a joint office and a single country plan. Both agencies are part of the Nehemiah Center ‘community’ where other like-minded organizations have an active presence (Worldwide Christian Schools, Missionary Ventures, Partners Worldwide, Food for the Hungry, Caribbean Ministry Association and CHE Global). The ‘community’ shares appropriate ideas, persons and resources that allow us to build synergism.
The CRCNA entered Nicaragua in response to an earthquake that destroyed the capital, Managua, on December 23, 1972. CRWRC helped meet the earthquake victim's emergency needs while World Missions tended to their spiritual needs by planting churches. All CRCNA missionaries were forced to leave in 1984 due to a civil war. CRC missionaries in neighboring countries made periodic visits to the fledging CRC of Nicaragua in the years that followed. In 1995, World Missions resumed its missionary presence in Nicaragua.
