What is community ministry? What does the Bible say about community ministry? It seems to me that the ministry of the disciples was a community ministry. I'm trying to imitate that with the work that I do. I am going about them and if I'm not received I shake the dust and move on. Curiously, the rudest guy was the one living next door to the church.
I am faced with the challenge/opportunity of defining and creating a community ministry on the northwest side of South Bend. This is a huge area filled with needs and I am challenged to discern and define this ministry. A blessing and curse of this is that I have no one I have to answer to and no one to turn to for guidance. I don't know anyone who has done this sort of ministry and I'm feeling sort of at loose ends.
I think I need to re-read Acts because I feel a lot like Paul and what those original disciples dealt with as they began those first churches. I don't know what to write because I'm still sort of reeling from this experience. This is what I have asked for and I do approach ministry differently than the presbytery does usually. For example, I asked the churches for a commitment to pray and that is part of my position description. I am surprised that this was such an unorthodox thing to say when designing a ministry.
Pray for me.
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