Churches acknowledge suffering and reach out with love and care to those in distress. However they also reach out with respected and trusted voice. It is this respected voice that contributes not only to national unity but also peace and stability in a region. When churches unite to face common threads to nations and regions, it is these exact voices that bring stability to regions. In general churches and the local network (body) of believers are very sustainable and make good partners to implement projects.

The church should take a leading role in any kind of society by expressing its concerns about shortcomings, sins of commission or omission.

Continued uncertainty are being felt in the SWAM region. This includes various reformation strategies and political shuffles. While to some these issues raises high hopes, there are those to whom it represents a threat. This different viewpoint could lead to uncertainty and possible conflict. Churches often take the role of national ombudsman. Afterall justice and reconciliation work is not simply an option for churches that choose to pursue it, but rather a foundational mark of the church as God's own community.

Churches have an important reconciliatory function in communities. Given the high conflict potential of some issues, especially where negotiations are indeed needed in local communities, the church would be needed. Although the Church emphasizes reconciliation between God and man, churches also emphasize reconciliation between people, population groups, races and nations. Churches can certainly claim the concepts of reconciliation and forgiveness as central to their terminology.

Therefor it is important to have stable church structures in the community not only to bring comfort after times of conflict but also avoid it by acting as mediators or prophetic voices when they speak the wisdom gathered from Scriptures. It is on this level where local governments consult church leaders, not only for spiritual care but also for wisdom and directions in matters of the nation.

Indeed, reconciliation and forgiveness crystallize the message that Christianity and missions can offer nations seeking national unity. Therefore it is important for the international community and churches to intensify their involvement in this area.

Hendrik Kraemer (1888-1965) said…In all our criticism and near-despair of the institutional Church, it should never be forgotten that many powers and possibilities really exist in it, but often in captivity; they exist as frozen credits and dead capital.