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Every church that has been involved in "ministry"
within or outside the church has experienced this problem,
and it is a problem. Church Care has experienced it too
- enough that we need to talk about it here. The problem
is this: "I signed up for this or that ministry or
mission - a year has passed and I have never been called
- not once. I'm through!" This gripe, in most cases
is warranted, but not all.
Church Care processes "need" referrals as they
come, and they come every day. We don't know where or
when or anything about them until we receive them. Church
Care Indy is not project oriented, meaning we are not
recruiting to a certain ongoing ministry work, but rather
to a Christian volunteer service pool that waits - but
waits ready to respond if and when the call comes.
We do not see our mission as "ending poverty."
The Scriptures tell us poverty (the poor) will always
be with us. Indeed, they are God's way of drawing us to
charity. Out of Charity (practiced) comes Love. Out of
Love (practiced) comes God's Peace and Joy. So - what
if we give ourselves in charity to strangers, expecting
to be called - waiting to be called but are disappointed
because we don't get called?
Watch for this - it is true. You will see when giving
yourself to this purpose - "serving one of the least
of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did it for
me." God will surely respond to your gift of "self".
As we wait, and pray, He will reveal to us, one after
the other, need situations present but not apparently
so in our personal environments. He will give us new grace
to recognize them and act upon them. He will satisfy our
hearts with little ways to reveal to others His kindness,
His goodness, His care and His love while we wait for
His call, through Church Care, to serve the stranger.
There are those who will read this that seem born to
be "doing". They are not happy unless they are
doing and doing for the Lord all the better. For these
very action prone souls Church Care will, upon their request,
so mark their files. We will go into the agencies and
solicit projects of a kind that suits them.
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