Open Doors is a Christian organization that has helped persecuted Christians around the world for 60 years. It provides Bibles, training, and livelihood support to persecuted communities. Currently, Open Doors is focusing on helping refugees fleeing violence in Syria and Iraq, providing food, education, and shelter to 19,000 families. Through donations, Open Doors supports Christians facing discrimination, abuse, and murder in 50 countries where persecution is most severe by distributing Bibles and other resources, training religious leaders, and funding community programs.
2. The client:
Open Doors is a Christian based organisation that helps persecuted Christians
around the world find safety and support through supplying Bibles, training,
livelihood skills and more. Open Doors was founded 60 years ago in the year of
1955, they started up here because a man named Brother Andrew smuggled Bibles
into Eastern Europe because people were being persecuted against and being a
Christian was seen as wrong. Open Doors manages to help those who are being
persecuted and those who aren’t by distributing Bibles worldwide, in 2014 they
managed to distribute about 3.1 billion Bibles. Open Doors also personally support
victims of violence and disaster by dispatching themselves out into countries that
have been on the wrong end of disasters, violence and destruction so that they
can help families re build their lives by finding jobs, housing, and providing meals.
Another way that Open Doors helps people is that they train fellow Christians and
Church leaders so they can preach the Bible correctly and in the right language as
well. As an organisation, Open Doors are mostly funded by donations made from
the public, but even help from the public by going to these destroyed countries
and supporting the persecuted victims.
3. The issues:
Open Doors aims to help every country and city where Christianity is heavily
persecuted against. The latest issue that Open Doors is tackling is the whole Syria
and Iraq crisis, ISIS have made Syria and Iraq warzones, causing a massive influx of
innocent refugees trying to find homes or at least shelter in safer countries in
Europe. Open Doors are trying to tackle this issue by asking people to donate
money so they can supply food, education, and shelter to those fleeing from Syria
and those who are stuck in Iraq. Open Doors are currently acting as a ‘lifeline’ to
about 19,000 families in Iraq and Syria.
Open Doors has a list of the top fifty persecuted countries around the world,
number one being North Korea. Christians in these countries are being
discriminated against, humiliated, beaten and even murdered. Open Doors are
using donations that people have sent in to provide Bibles, training, education
and support to those who are suffering and being persecuted against, in 2014
Open Doors managed to provide around 3.1 millions Bibles and other Christian
resources, they managed to train over 308,000 Christians and church leaders to
teach the Gospel, they also managed to provide education for 2,100 children and
serve 356,000 people through community development projects.
4. The issues:
In the year of 2014 Open Doors managed to raise £10,146,687 which was spent on
equipment to support those who are suffering, to train those who want to learn
and teach the Bible to people who cant access it.
Open Doors are trying to achieve a world where people are not persecuted for
being a Christian, or any other belief for that matter, however that is an
incredibly hard target, especially when the number of Christians is marginally
outnumbered compared to the number of those who share a different belief and
are willing to torture and murder Christians. A way for Open Doors to do this
would be to lower the amount of countries that are in their top 50 list.
5. Facts and figures:
In the year of 2014 Open Doors managed to provide around 3.1 millions Bibles and
other Christian resources, they managed to train over 308,000 Christians and
church leaders to teach the Gospel, they also managed to provide education for
2,100 children and serve 356,000 people through community development
projects, however they will want to increase the numbers in future years.
To afford supplying these items, Open Doors has to make some form of income,
through donations given by the public. In 2014, the organisation managed to raise
over £10,000,000 which they spent on providing the supplies over £2,000,000 has
been spent on supporting victims of disaster and destruction, over a million was
spent on raising awareness and another million was spent on training people to
teach.
