Poverty cries. We answer. A note from founder John Greiner Many of us have had an encounter with human suffering, one that rocks us to the core. For me, a pastor, that encounter reshaped my view of the gospel and my responsibility to share it. Here’s the scene. I was traveling home from the Philippines after an outwardly successful ministry trip. I settled into my seat tired but content. More than 10,000 people come to be lifted and encouraged in the areas of Iloilo City where crime and poverty run most rampant. Our church had purchased all the rice we could—3000 bags—to distribute to hungry families. Then I heard this report from one of our administrators: we had run out of rice long before everyone was served. What? Here I had talked about a great God yet had fallen miserably short in demonstrating His love and abundance. If actions speak louder than words, I had failed that community, failed each expectant person. So the scripture says: Let us not love in word only but in deed and in truth. My ministry would not be the same. I went to my friend Lonnie Rex, a humanitarian with a lifetime of service, and asked him to help me. I knew Lonnie had been onsite at nearly every major humanitarian crisis of the last 4 decades, from Bangladesh to Ethiopia, Cambodia to Russia, and still had the fire to do more. The following year, we joined together to build support for those making life better for their native communities. There’s no shortage of grass-roots organizations doing wonders. Many work selflessly under the radar screen saving and improving lives every day. Now, we help them and speak out on their behalf. The thrust of Global Aid Partnership, then, is to love in deed. And love compels each of us to answer when poverty cries.