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A Divine Mandate

Like us, churches are motivated by a divine mandate to love their neighbors.

ENLACE helps churches fulfill that mandate by partnering with communities to create long-term solutions to multidimensional poverty.

Mobilizing churches to transform communities multiplies your impact while empowering them to more effectively share the gospel. Head over to Our Approach for a step-by-step introduction to how we achieve that mission. 

ENLACE is Spanish for “link”

The Church has access to better tools than ever to demonstrate God’s love – yet most churches are not yet equipped to make a lasting, world-changing impact.

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In the U.S. most churches need help navigating the complex world of international development, culture, language, and multidimensional poverty. Without that help, they risk doing more harm than good.

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Around the world, poor churches want to love their neighbors by helping them meet basic needs like safe drinking water, food, shelter, and economic opportunity, but they lack the necessary relationships and knowledge.

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ENLACE links churches with training, coaching, partnerships, and service and learning experiences that transform communities and cultivate more fully devoted disciples of Christ, both here at home, and in the countries where we serve.

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Our Vision

We believe in the Church as God’s primary agent of reconciliation on earth. We invite you to join God’s work saving lives, restoring relationships, and and making all things new.

Over the next five years, ENLACE aims to coach and resource more than 4,330 church and community leaders from 173 churches to impact 300,000 lives in El Salvador, Nepal, Guatemala, and Nicaragua.

Check out Our Approach for more about how ENLACE participates in God’s invitation to redeem the most forgotten parts of God’s creation.

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Our Church Partners

Partnering with Enlace is a connection to a deeper understanding of what true development work looks like. It's a back-and-forth relationship, keeping our church up to date on what's going on in the world, and informing us on ways we can better partner with communities, and with people.
Madeline HollerHouse of Hope Director, Soul City Church, Chicago
Can your church have a lasting impact on breaking the cycles of poverty? Absolutely! We are confident that our partnership with Enlace does just that. Enlace has a finely tuned system that emboldens churches to take on the biggest problems facing their communities. Our church has been changed by our partnership.
Scott WoodsCampus Pastor, Willow Creek Community Church
It has been a great honor to work alongside Enlace for the past 8 years. I have been formed immensely by the people and the work of Enlace. The local churches are beacons in their communities. Enlace continues to inspire us here in the states to equip our own church for greater community transformation!
Tommy NikaPastor of Global and Bloomington Campus, Eastview Church
Partnering with Enlace has been a chance to engage our employees in our deeper mission and purpose as a company. By educating them on holistic and strategic programs and sending them on service trips to see the beauty firsthand, we have seen God move in the hearts and lives of our employees and their families.
Bobby ParksChief Ministry Officer, John Houston Homes Family of Companies
I discovered Enlace while I was a young pastor. I did not know anything about community development and the cycles of poverty. Enlace has become a model to me on how to love a community and empower a church to change the world.
Scott WoodsCampus Pastor, Willow Creek Community Church
Enlace's focus on equipping the Church to work with the community for long-term solutions has ignited our imagination for how to embody the good news of Christ in our city.
Christine NolfPastor of Healthy Communities, Redemption Church, Costa Mesa, CA
We're grateful for the opportunity to learn from and work alongside Enlace to serve churches and leaders in Central America as they seek to catalyze positive change in their communities. Working with Enlace is life-giving because they are more than just a partner; they have also become our friends!
Jeff GalleyLife Church
Enlace has helped Willow Crystal Lake learn how to "do" holistic, asset-based community development in our own local neighborhoods. We have taken the model that Enlace uses in Latin America and work to implement some of these same principles as we partner with other churches and local agencies to impact our community!
Julie DavisWillow Crystal Lake
Our partnership with Enlace has helped shape the framework in the way we serve our community. We have learned firsthand from Enlace the great importance and privilege to the long-term commitment in walking with the materially poor.
Stefanie AckermanMissions & Outreach Pastor, Summit Church, Indiana PA
We don't just consider Enlace and their team partners of ours; we see Enlace as a meaningful relationship that is integral to our church's mission.
Kyle HealeyCompassion and Justice Pastor, Willow Creek Community Church
Enlace does not come in with all the answers, but caters specifically to the community, giving the community leaders a hand and a leg up to make decisions that they know are best. It's a transformational partnership that has changed the lives of so many who've connected with Enlace through our partnership.
Madeline HollerHouse of Hope Director, Soul City Church, Chicago
Partnering with Enlace has been key to our church's understanding that we are a part of the Body of Christ around the world. Walking with pastors through their communities and serving alongside the church and community members emboldens our vision for what God has called us to in our corner of the world.
Christine NolfPastor of Healthy Communities, Redemption Church, Costa Mesa, CA
The Church is the most powerful entity on the planet. Enlace helps churches around the world embody this power by seeing their communities the way God sees them. They train and empower church leaders to make a lasting impact in the pursuit of eliminating poverty.
Scott WoodsCampus Pastor, Willow Creek Community Church
Enlace has played an important role in discipling our church around issues of poverty and injustice. Enlace staff are experts at facilitating experiences for our congregation. They are intentional about building into our teams and leaders while helping folks engage in meaningful work and relationships. We trust them 100% with our serving teams.
Kyle HealyCompassion and Justice Pastor, Willow Creek Community Church
To work with Enlace is to see and experience helping without hurting at its best. The way Enlace works through churches in the community creates long-term engagement and growth.
Riani MartinCrossway Christian Church, Nashua, NH
Enlace has one of the healthiest and most strategic community transformation models we have the privilege of partnering with. It’s encouraging to see their healthy and sustainable approach to empowering the church to lead lasting change in their communities.
Bobby ParksChief Ministry Officer, John Houston Homes Family of Companies
Enlace is one of the best examples of what it looks like to mobilize churches to make a difference in their communities - they are experts at leveraging local assets and relationships from all facets of society for good.
Kyle HealyCompassion and Justice Pastor, Willow Creek Community Church
When we work with Enlace, I know that not only the local churches and families we go to serve will be treated with the utmost respect and care, but that our teams will learn how to see communities in new ways, seeing not just their needs, but also the strengths and assets they bring to their community.
Julie DavisWillow Crystal Lake
Enlace Church coaches are invested in local Churches and community leaders. When you come back from a trip to El Salvador you have a better understanding of mission work, made lifelong friends, and have a deeper appreciation of your life.
Riani MartinCrossway Christian Church, Nashua, NH
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