About Us
About Cross Cultural Connections
Learn more about Birmingham Cross Cultural Connections: Our Statement of Faith, Our Mission, and Our Vision for the Future.
Our Mission and Our Vision for the Future
Why do we do what we do?
The Mission of Birmingham Cross Cultural Connections is to alleviate the burdens on immigrant and refugee families entering the city of Birmingham through resources, training, assistance, opportunities, and relationships that encourage self-sufficiency and promote holistic wellness.
Our Vision is to see all nationalities thrive in our great nation while finding and living out God’s good design for their lives. We will do this by bringing together Birmingham-area non-profits, partners, and local churches to meet immediate physical, emotional, legal, and spiritual needs, while partnering together with our clients for long-term development.
Our Statement of Faith
Our Call Comes from the Lord
We believe the Holy Scriptures of the Old Testament and New Testament are the inerrant, inspired, and infallible Word of God. God’s Word is the final authority for faith and life.
We believe there is only one God, and He has chosen to reveal Himself to us as God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit.
We believe man was created in the image of God and the sin of Adam (the first man) marred that image, creating an eternal divide between God and man. Every person is born in sin.
We believe the sacredness of human personality is evident in that God created man in His own image, and in that Christ died for man; therefore, every person of every ethnicity and every people group possesses full dignity and is worthy of respect, love and care.
We believe that Jesus Christ is the eternal Son of God, conceived of the Holy Spirit and born of the virgin Mary. We believe Jesus perfectly revealed and did the will of God, taking upon Himself human nature and identifying Himself with mankind, yet without sin. He honored the divine law by His personal obedience, and through His death on the cross, made provision for the redemption of men from sin. He was raised with a glorified body, appeared to His disciples, ascended into heaven, and is now exalted at the right hand of God. We believe that one day Jesus will return in power and glory.
We believe that the only way a person can have a true, forgiven relationship with God is through Jesus Christ’s sacrifice on the cross. We believe redemption from our sins in Jesus comes through faith alone in Him as our Savior.
We believe God offers eternal life as a free gift to those that believe and that it is given through God’s grace alone. The life that comes from this gift is a permanent possession of the one receiving it.
We believe the church is a local body of believers on mission to enlarge God’s kingdom and be a living picture of God’s care and love for the vulnerable.
We believe it is a biblical mandate that believers should care for the quartet of the vulnerable: the widow, the orphan, the poor, and the immigrant.
For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat; I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink; I was a stranger and you took me in; I was naked and you clothed me; I was sick and you took care of me; I was in prison and you visited me.
– Matthew 25:35-36
He executes justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the resident alien, giving him food and clothing.
– Deuteronomy 10:18
The Lord protects resident aliens and helps the fatherless and the widow.
– Psalm 149:9
When you reap the harvest of your land, you are not to reap all the way to the edge of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest. Leave them for the poor and the resident alien; I am the Lord your God.
– Leviticus 23:22
You will allot it as an inheritance for yourselves and for the aliens residing among you, who have fathered children among you. You will treat them like native-born Israelites; along with you, they will be allotted an inheritance among the tribes of Israel.
– Ezekiel 47:22
The one who denies justice to a resident alien, a fatherless child, or a widow is cursed.
– Deuteronomy 27:19
There is no Jew or Greek, slave or free, male and female; since you are all one in Christ Jesus.
– Galatians 3:28
You must not oppress a resident alien; you yourselves know how it feels to be a resident alien because you were resident aliens in the land of Egypt.
– Exodus 23:9
You will regard the alien who resides with you as the native-born among you. You are to love him as yourself, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt; I am the Lord your God.
– Leviticus 19:34
I was eyes to the blind and feet to the lame. I was a father to the needy, and I examined the case of the stranger. I shattered the fangs of the unjust and snatched the prey from his teeth.
– Job 29:15-17
Don’t neglect to show hospitality, for by doing this some have welcomed angels as guests without knowing it.
– Hebrews 13:2
When they were few in number, very few indeed, and resident aliens in Canaan wandering from nation to nation and from one kingdom to another, he allowed no one to oppress them; he rebuked kings on their behalf.
– 1 Chronicles 16:19-21
Peter began to speak: “Now I truly understand that God doesn’t show favoritism.”
– Acts 10:34
He executes justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the resident alien, giving him food and clothing.
Deuteronomy 10:18
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