by Cameron Harder
SubscribeOne fall CiRCLe M (Centre for Rural Community Leadership and Ministry), a nonprofit I direct, organized a conference on the church and community development. In workshops, worship, and conversation, one church leader after another shared stories of how their congregations had cared for their communities, how they provided relief after fire and flood, supported grieving families, looked after youth and elders in the community, stepped into gaps in community health care, and much more. After the conference one participant who hadn’t been involved in church conferences before said, “I had no idea pastors and churches are doing so much good in their communities. I think the general perception is that they are just out there trying to push their ideology on people and get them to join their church.”
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