Videos

Servants Online Video Library

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introducing servants video

Get to know Servants.  Hear from our workers.  See where we live.  And learn about our vision to see the urban poor and their communities transformed by Jesus Christ.

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servants’ core principles

In this video, various Servants workers reflect on Servants’ five ministry principles, which are: incarnation, community, servanthood, simplicity and wholism. Find out why these principles are important, and what they look like in practice.

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Overview of servants

Servants is an incarnational mission to the slums of Asia. We follow Christ into the slums.  The following video gives a brief overview of Servants’ calling to live and minister amongst the poor.

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LILOK YOUTH RETREAT

Inspiring clips from a youth mental health debrief retreat in February 2023. It was held at beautiful Sakahang Lilok, the eco-retreat-farm Servants helped to establish outside Manila, Philippines.

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Jesus in jakarta

Bob Ekblad interviews Servants worker Lina, who supports her neighbors as their slum is evicted.

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the kingdom tree

Contextualization – When we invite people to follow Jesus, then which community are we inviting them to join?  This video was created by a Servants worker in India, though the content is originally by others.

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street believers mission

Before the COVID-19 Pandemic there were approximately 3 million people homeless in Manila, now there are even more.  The Servants Manila team is working with Street Believers to support some of these people to survive and ultimately to move out of homelessness.

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3 PARADIGM SHIFTS IN HOW WE APPROACH EVANGELISM

In this video reflection, Servants missionary Jason Porterfield shares with us three desperately needed paradigm shifts in how Christians ought to approach evangelism.  Jason and his family have been members of the Servants Vancouver team, followed by the Servants Indonesia team.  Currently, Jason oversees Servants’ sending office in North America.

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maya street family camp – april 2022

In April 2022, some Servants workers in Manila took a group of families from their neighbourhood to Sakahang Lilok organic farm retreat for a “family camp.” Here they tell the story in video.

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PURSUING PEACE IN GODZONE – PLOUGHSHARES AT WAIHOPAI

A video made in 2018 by Servants Elder Adi Leeson about costly Christian peace-building.

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liberating fire

Servants elder Bob Ekblad was an activist, a missionary, and a pastor, but he felt like his gospel wasn’t strong enough to meet the needs of the poor he was serving. Then, God did something new. Read Bob’s latest book: bobekblad.com/store/Guerrilla-Gospel-p125992822

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poor wise man

In the Poor Wise Man, Dr. Viv Grigg, reflects on 40 years of his pilgrimage walking alongside the explosion of urban missions globally in the slums. The film is available to buy here, and is also available on YouTube here.

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SURVIVING AND SERVING DURING A PANDEMIC

In this video, Simon from Manila shares about surviving and serving during a pandemic.

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DOWNTOWN EASTSIDE INTRODUCTION

This short film offers an introductory look into life on the streets of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside neighborhood.

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BATANG RIVERSIDE

The “kids from Riverside” sing about what life is like for them there.

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Malvin’s Journey Out of homelessness

The Servants Manila team has recently been working with Street Believers Mission, a mission to homeless people on the streets of Manila.  In this video, Malvin tells the story of his experiences of homelessness and the support he received from Street Believers.

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TAKE BACK THE BLOCK PARTY

Every month on Welfare Wednesday in the Downtown Eastside, the Servants Vancouver team and friends throw a Take Back the Block party.  Learn more in this video.

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community-based orphan care

This video highlights a community-based approach to orphan care that was started in Cambodia.  To learn more about this, we recommend reading Craig Greenfield’s book Urban Halo.

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servants vancouver internships

Learn about what an internship with the Servants Vancouver team looks like.  This film includes interviews with past interns along with footage of what it means for the Servants Vancouver team to be a community of radical hospitality.

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kids on the block

A short documentary about raising children in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside neighborhood.

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nest community mural project

The Nest Community Mural Project began as a group of people from three faith-based communities: Jacob’s Well, Mission Possible, and Servants gathered together, hoping to create something art related that would benefit the neighborhood and reflect our passionate commitment to long term relationships with people in the neighborhood.