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Pray for Unity
There are no proscriptions in the bible that might give reason for any Christian church not to be working with other Christian churches of different denominations in matters relating to help for the legitimate poor, the sick, the lonely, the blind, the lame, prisoners, widows, and children. Indeed we are called to do all we can for the legitimate needy if we will call ourselves Christian. So often Jesus Christ taught His disciples to meet people at their point of need: Feed the hungry, care for the ill and the weak, care for children, comfort the distressed, clothe the naked, visit the prisoners, love our neighbors, and more - and let it be now - not tomorrow. Here's just a little bit of what scripture tells us about how to think and what to say and do about "these the least of my brethren".

Let us stop saying we love people; Let us really love them, and show it by our actions.
1 John 3:18

The gifts He gave were that some would be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers, to prepare God's people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the full measure of the stature of Jesus.
Ephesians 4:11-13

Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength. The second is this: Love your neighbor as yourself. There is no command greater than these.
Mark 12:30-31

Which of these three do you think was a neighbor to the man who fell into the hands of robbers?" The expert of the law replied, 'The one who had mercy on him.' Jesus told him, 'Go and do likewise'.
Luke 10:28-37

God reads our hearts. He sees us come and He sees us go. We read these scriptures and we want to do something about it. We want to make a difference. We feel challenged - unfortunately, not for long. The problem is just too immense - what good are these puny efforts of mine? Discouragement takes hold and poverty wins. The same is true for the Church. What can this little church of ours do against the enormity of the problem? Truth is, the little we are able to do as individuals and as individual church bodies is in fact doing well, but the good of it is not readily visible. We can't see the good against the enormity of the condition. Again, the look of "nothing happening" turns into discouragement and soon it is a fact - nothing is happening - that is, nothing regarding our individual call to serve the legitimate poor in our communities. In this picture we can see the value of Church Care, the central clearing house. We are not making a visible difference, going our separate ways, but together we - the Church in Indianapolis - can make a huge difference.

Do you know that, by the numbers, the Church in Indianapolis is by far the largest and potentially the most powerful entity in our city? Who can see us as that? We are so divided and apart from one another; the world sees only our apartness. There is no better way to show a unity in our local Church than to be seen as one - together and faithful in this one, but all important command - responding in the name of Christ to the needs of the legitimate poor.

Church Care is a facilitator. Church Care has no need for a public presence. The public presence must be the Church in Indianapolis - not Church Care. Church Care, in all our policy, attempts to make the Church, where in lives Christ Jesus our Lord and Savior, visible to the world around us. The power to make things change is in Christ’s Church, working as one body in this one thing - serving the legitimate poor and needy in the name of Christ. It cannot happen without prayer. Will you pray for Church Care?

How can you best help Church Care in prayer? We need you. We need your participation in specific targeted prayer. Use our contact form to make known your willingness to pray for us and with us. We are interested in receiving your comments regarding how we can link up for purposes of praying over “our Mission, our Vision, our Purpose”; that our local churches might come alive in love and service to the legitimate poor and needy; that the unparalleled power of Christ’s love, in and through His Church, be made surely visible to the unbelieving world. That’s how the world was changed in the early centuries of the Church. That’s how the Church can change the world again. We beg the power of your prayer.

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