A Helping Hand and a Clear Witness: The Christian Response to Global Suffering
Kent Hill Wednesday, 1 December 2004
I approach this topic wearing two hats. First, I am presently in my fourth year as a member of President Bush's senior management team in the area of development assistance, responsible for the Bureau for Europe and Eurasia at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). My Bureau is responsible for USAID assistance given to the former communist countries of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, plus Turkey, Ireland, and Cyprus. Second, I am a Christian layman very much interested in how the Body of Christ responds to global suffering—a layman struggling, with the assistance of the Church, to be a faithful disciple of Jesus Christ in a world that is broken and hurting. The bulk of what follows flows from my experience wearing this second hat, but it is informed by what I have observed in the professional world of development these last several years.
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