Since this quarter's Sabbath School study topic is Missionaries as Agents of Hope, I thought I'd pass on a link to an article from the Spring 2008 issue of Leadership Journal. Its title is "Parish Without Partners?" (I don't know for how long it will be free to access.)
The article's theme is that the gospel must be holistic. It must meet both the spiritual and physical needs. Churches are usually good at meeting the spiritual, but when it comes to meeting physical, it is often wanting. On the other hand, service agencies and groups are good at meeting the physical, but they are often not equipped for moving people beyond getting their immediate needs met. Rather than one organization trying to accomplish two different things, it might make better sense to have multiple organizations separately run with their own focused goals, but are accountable to one another.
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