Reply #10: There was a strong religious motivation behind the starting of Heifer, [View All]

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and I'm sure many who are involved in it have strong religious motivation driving them to be involved, but heifer itself does not push or stress religion in their helping of people.

One could say it's a Christian organization since it was founded in Christian love, but it isn't "evangelical"; it's quite secular in its helping.

When I worked the Heifer farm in Mass., there was onstensibly some Christian component to the community life of the full-time volunteers, and some Christian symbology to be found, but in a very small, subtle way, and never overbearing or inappropriate. I was there with a church group, and if memory serves, of the full-time summer volunteers, maybe only one or two are what one would call obviously/definitely Christian, and even for them their faith informed their mission, as opposed to their mission being to shove Chrsitianity on others (that is, no more obviously or forcefully Christian than we were, or that I am)

Hope that helps, and makes sense.