Lakewood Ministries

Thesis: The Salvation Army is a Christian church and an international charitable organization that helps millions by helping the poor and providing disaster relief as well as humanitarian aid to developing countries.

Community First! Village is sponsored by Mobile Loaves & Fishes, a catholic charity that has has grown to working every night, all year long, providing food, clothing,and hygiene products to the homeless in surrounding cities of Austin. They have served over 5 million meals with the help of 19,000 volunteers. Their recent innovation (Community First!) is a 27-acre development that has been building a tiny home community for homeless people to buy for inexpensive prices. The village features miniature neighborhoods of homes, a church, garden, medical facility, market, movie theater, and other amenities. The project continues to grow as donations and volunteers come in for construction of housing and purchases of needed materials and goods. As of now, the village has housed almost 200 former homeless men and women. Mobile Loaves & Fishes continues to house more people as construction is completed and word has spread to other major cities of the work this organization has founded and grown.

Galindo analyzes that the fundamental “mission” of a congregation is the same as any other congregation that exists in any part of the world. He argues that though every congregation has a mission and a vision, at the same time, it shares a basic common mission. (43) This reminds me of my home church The First Church of Evanston and my Field Site, The Evanston Vineyard Church. Both churches have a common mission of welcoming people to the church, irrespective of their ethnic, cultural, racial, and economic and, gender backgrounds. The mission is to help people be received in the house of God with due and deserved Christian love so that they feel loved and welcomed. Both these churches encourage church attendees to attend the service and receive the Eucharist.

I had the privilege of interviewing Brian Bagwell for this project. He is, in my opinion, one of most humble, wisest man we have at Church of the Highlands. Once you get through a joke or two, the fruits of the spirit radiate from his personality. A man that I have the privilege to call my mentor and teacher. He is currently serving on staff at the Church of the Highlands as a Dream Team Coordinator. His shares the vision of the church which is passed down from our senior pastor, Chris Hodges. Evangelism is the definition of the church so to speak, Church of the Highlands stands behind the final authority of God’s word which is the bible. It is often said among the staff “we do not argue the essentials, but we can disagree the non essentials.” The church believes and acts in spreading the good news of Jesus Christ, and helping people move through four steps our God has outlined in the Great Commission. Our Church exists to see people saved, delivered, redeemed, and fulfilled. This is accomplished with four systems that allow the people to move through the four steps. The first is weekend services to allow them to know God (saved), small groups to find freedom (delivered), growth track to discover purpose (redeemed), and dream team to be fulfilled and make a difference (fulfilled). This vision is how the church evangelizes (Bagwell). This vision is clear to all members of the church who call Church of the Highlands home, and even clear to people

Let’s talk about the world about 2,000 years ago. It was a world where the mass of people were illiterate, taxes were extremely high, and the leaders would cheat and kill to feed their ever growing need for power. We all can relate to having a good storyteller in our lives, most were read to at night by their parents or are parents themselves that read to their children. What is the purpose of storytelling? It’s simple, comfort. A good story can ease your psychological unrest as well as offer a moral purpose. Sometimes you can even relate a story to your own life and offer an explanation to something you may be experiencing. This is exactly what the four gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John were. They told their stories of Jesus to offer comfort to their people in a time when people could not pick up a story and read it themselves. It is part of human nature to have the desire for a good story. This paper will describe several events that were written by great storytellers in the bible.

Offerings- People give the church money for the local church, ministries and the church’s mission. People believe that when they give money they give it to god to help him help others.

One of the many charity organizations that attempted to make a difference- the Salvation Army..had made their day view when the unemployment rate had reached 25 percent: “The Salvation Army used 10 years of mass anguish to demonstrate Christ’s love and provide in abundance.”(salvationarmynorth, page 10). The committed charity group had took it upon themselves to deliver gift baskets to 1500 families in peril on christmas eve. Though this organization had been proving to be successful in providing many people with relief from this financial crisis, there were many cases in which the people had given negative responses; “The Salvation Army’s primary function was to spread the gospel through loud open-air meetings...Many Salvation Army officers had to dodge rotten vegetables...by onlookers who didn’t appreciate hearing the message of Jesus Christ.”(salvationarmynorth, page 10). This is just one of the many independant charity groups which attempted to bring some form of

The Wesley Mission is another way that Christianity has contributed to social welfare in Australia. The Wesley Mission was established in Sydney in 1812, and since then has been committed to the Christian faith to guide, support, and be an advocate for members of society who are in need. There reason for this is through their belief that God’s heart is for the poor and his desire is to look after them, which is conveyed in the book of

The Social Gospel is the idea of social problems being looked and fixed with a Christian point of view. The Gospel will always stay the same and we should refer the Social Gospel as living out the Gospel. The goal of the Social Gospel Movement was to tie salvation and good work together. They thought people should live the life of a Jesus Christ. Classes, counseling, job training and libraries were provided by churches to act according to the Social Gospel. The origins and issues of the Social Gospel Movement, how the Social Gospel related to a Progressive Era, the work of Walter Rauschenbusch, and how Social Gospel relates to the Gospel will be covered in this essay.

of the most expressive and meaningful stories that have lots of great deep meanings. These stories

The board members of "TRIALS AND TRIBULATION MINISTRIES" in corporated (hereinafter referred to as the ("BILLINGS HELP AND DIRECTIONAL CENTER”), desiring to serve and honor the Lord Jesus Christ, do hereby adopt the following Biblical principles of government and order stated in these specific Bylaws as a declaration of our commitment to carry out the divine eternal work of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ in a dilligent proper servanthood-Bilical-fashion. These Bylaws are a Christian declaration of what we believe and are our goals for this nonprofit corporation and ministry outreach. Therefore "TRIALS AND TRIBULATION MINISTRIES" is a non-profit corporation and ministry outreach which provides through the "BILLINGS HELP AND DIRECTIONAL

Medical Support: From the medical aspect the church provided assistance to clinic and hospitals in across the county. Interestingly the UMC was one of the denominations that contributed immensely to health center by suppling medicines and medical equipment as well I think the essence of the church is to reach out to the community providing for those who have been affected by these of social justice in our society. This could also serve as a means of evangelism by which we can bring people to Christ. This is what God requires of each of us as we proclaim his Good News. Jesus said, “For I was hungry and you give me food, I was thirsty and you give me something to drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, I was naked and you give me clothing, I was in prison and you visited me. And when was it that we saw you as a stranger and welcomed you, or naked and gave you clothing? And when was it that we saw you sick or in prison and visited you? And he will answer them, ‘Truly I tell you, as you did it to one of the least of these who are members of my family, you did it to me.’” People that Jesus love them when can see so need to give your life to him, but it is much more than that. In the Gospel account of Matthew 14:13-21 talks about both physical and growth of the body. Spiritually we need to grow by reading to those brothers and sisters who are homeless and broken hearted in

Saddleback Church does have a prayer ministry. Its location is under the “care” tab. As an introduction, Saddleback includes a purpose of statement that reveals the essentiality of prayer. Those who need prayer are able to fill out a prayer request form or leave a prayer request on the Prayer Line. In addition, those who want to serve in the prayer ministry can volunteer by following the instructions that are on the Prayer

‘James Song, Ph.D. founded the International Evangelical Association in 1983 with the purpose of furthering international evangelism, world missions, and Christian education as emphasized in the Great Commission of Jesus Christ in Matthew 28 :18-20.

Any company aim is to increase the profit for the share holders, receive dividend (distribution of profits) in order to invest again or issue shares (selling part of the capital, method mainly used by big business to avoid asking bank loans and have liquidity – cash flow), take bank loans, while non for profit organization aim, is not to gain profit or save money but to spend for social purposes, explaining how the money was spent. There are four main types of charities structure; Charitable incorporated organization, Charitable Company,