Mobilizing Your Church Into Effective Mercy Ministry


	Our goal in this presentation is to help you learn how to mobilize a congregation in the work of mercy ministry. This is always a challenge, when the leaders of congregations sense the will of God and want to move a church in a new direction, or renew a direction. Mobilization is energizing a group to pursue a certain goal and helping them to put into action people, plans, and resources to accomplish that goal.
	We want this mobilization to result in effective mercy ministry, and not just a new organizational chart, or new pamphlets, or new slogans. Effectiveness implies really solving a problem or meeting a need. Far too often we engage in producing repetitive activities that don’t seem to move us very far ahead in accomplishing anything. Mercy seeks to eliminate need, to heal the sick, to feed the poor, the house the homeless, to give hope to the hopeless, and not to keep people in perpetual need and make them dependent. This is tough, and it will require wisdom from God.