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Habitat for Humanity, etc.?

Discussion in 'Polls Forum' started by FriendofSpurgeon, Oct 16, 2007.

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What local ministries does your church support?

  1. Habitat for Humanity?

    5 vote(s)
    33.3%

  2. Abortion Alternatives?

    6 vote(s)
    40.0%

  3. Boy/Girl Scouts?

    2 vote(s)
    13.3%

  4. Food pantry?

    8 vote(s)
    53.3%

  5. Operation Christmas Child?

    9 vote(s)
    60.0%

  6. Homeless Assistance?

    3 vote(s)
    20.0%

  7. Alcoholics Anonymus (or similar)

    4 vote(s)
    26.7%

  8. Divorce/Grief counseling?

    3 vote(s)
    20.0%

  9. Other counseling?

    6 vote(s)
    40.0%

  10. Other?

    7 vote(s)
    46.7%
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  1. FriendofSpurgeon

    FriendofSpurgeon Well-Known Member
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    What does your church support?
     
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  2. bobbyd

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    Looks like the answer here may be not nearly enough.
     
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  3. I Am Blessed 24

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    Crisis Pregnancy Center

    Reformer's Unanimous

    We also help individual families with love offerings and our Pastor counsels on many subjects.
     
    #3 I Am Blessed 24, Oct 17, 2007
  4. FBCPastorsWife

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    We help people quite often with our food pantry and also supply all of our bus families with Christmas dinner. We also had a clothes closet for about a year but never had anyone request any. We were baffled by that. I'm not sure what Operation Christmas Child is but we do adopt children from our bus ministry to do Christmas for (is that something like it?).

    Of course we offer counseling to anyone in the church. We would like to expand to do more for those in the community.
     
    #4 FBCPastorsWife, Oct 17, 2007
  5. rbell

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    I'm taking "support" to mean sharing of resources...that may be financial, or it may be labor, supplies, etc.

    We could do more, but all in all I'm pleased with what our church supports:
    • Habitat for Humanity
    • Rebuilding Together (instead of new homes like H4H, they renovate old ones)
    • WELCOME center (local food/clothes/benevolence place; a cooperative effort)
    • A couple of local Baptist-affiliated counseling centers
    • Sav-a-life
    • 2 crisis pregnancy centers
    • A local church that specifically targets gang-affected areas of a local city
    • A local home for mentally challenged residents
    • 2 Nursing home ministries
    • Operation christmas Child
    • other stuff I'm forgetting
     
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  6. rbell

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    Please consider this ministry for your church. It's wonderful.

    OCC

    We're blessed to have a former recipient of Operation Christmas Child as a member. She is from a former Soviet Republic, and is now one of our student leaders. What a powerful testimony!
     
    #6 rbell, Oct 17, 2007
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    I would like to see churches in general support it's members / attenders more. I can't tell you how many times I see the above being supported when a brother or sister in Christ lost a job, car broke down and can't repair it, etc. and the church does nothing as a whole for them. This is one reason I hesitate in giving all to the local church. It seems many churches budgets are eaten up by building / maintenance and pastor's salary, which I do not find to be biblical stewardship for the local church.
     
    #7 webdog, Oct 17, 2007
  8. FriendofSpurgeon

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    That is so cool. I will share with others. Last year, we collected more than 800 shoe boxes. This year's goal -- 1000.
     
    #8 FriendofSpurgeon, Oct 17, 2007
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    That's too sad that they won't help. One of the things that we do is via our Deacon's Fund, which is additional giving on Communion Sundays (usually once per month). This is to help our church families (and others) with financial needs.
     
    #9 FriendofSpurgeon, Oct 17, 2007
  10. FBCPastorsWife

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    That's fantastic! I love hearing things like this!
     
    #10 FBCPastorsWife, Oct 17, 2007
  11. SaggyWoman

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    I am a member of a church, where I serve, but I also have been visiting a church that works with habitat.
     
    #11 SaggyWoman, Oct 17, 2007
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    We help support and minister to a local orphanage.
     
    #12 Tentmaker, Oct 19, 2007
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