Compassion Ministries
Ministering with Compassion During the Challenges of Life
During times of personal pain, like when caring for a seriously ill family member, people need hope. Deep in their soul, they long for the strength to keep moving forward to a place of healing and love. Healthcare to Homecare can provide them with resources to help make their job easier, but to find an answer to those longings, they need to reach out to Jesus. Only our Savior can do that. He kept me going when Lynn was at risk of dying almost every day for ten years. Without that hope, well, I don’t know how I would have kept going. So many don’t have it.
Today, many are turning to spirituality. Unbelievers do not trust the church for answers. Many don’t believe the Bible is authentic or that the devil is real. They believe God is a character from a movie like Zeus. Those who are ill or desperately depressed are dying daily. They don’t have a second chance once they take that last breath.
We have no time to waste in reaching those who don’t know God, who haven’t met Jesus, and who have no hope. Jesus reached people through one-on-one ministry. God put on my heart to start a revival of compassion in our churches using Compassion Ministries. Through helping to heal their pain, you show them that the love of Christ is real, and He is real. Then the message spreads to one another, through real people with real stories. Please take a few minutes to learn more about how Jesus wants you to reach others for his Kingdom, one broken heart, one healing step, and one personal connection at a time.
Changes occurring in healthcare spell bad news for family caregivers. Hospitals discharge patients long before they have fully healed. Either the patient or the family must assume care responsibilities to complete the healing process. While that was not a problem in the past, it has become one now. Fewer families have two adult incomes, and although that was true before the 1950s, at that time, a one-adult household provider could also support the family financially. Now, in many homes, it cannot. Furthermore, extended family members are not available to step in to help with care.
Churches struggle with how to meet the needs of members with special medical or personal needs or those who can no longer attend services in person. Keeping them connected, ministering to their struggles, and acting as liaisons between those attending in the church building and those attending virtually is a job too large for the ministerial staff alone. It’s a job for the entire church membership to embrace.
