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Download full textUnited Methodist Church, New York, NY. – 1998
In 1996, the Council of Bishops called upon the United Methodist Church to reshape its mission in response to the crisis among children and the impoverished within the primary goal of evangelization. As one response to the Bishops' Initiative on Children and Poverty, congregations may undertake specific actions to make their churches more…
Descriptors: Children, Church Programs, Church Responsibility, Church Role
Cleland, C.L. – 1967
The paucity of research concerning the role of family and church in rural Appalachia leads to a reliance on observations and parallels drawn from research in related areas of sociology. Highly structured family and church group relations in the Appalachian region often obstruct both the development of other inter-group relations and attempts to…
Descriptors: Church Programs, Church Responsibility, Church Role, Family Influence
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs. – 1988
Catholic charities and church groups have been actively engaged in providing basic shelter needs for homeless people long before the issue of homelessness came to the national attention. The purpose of this hearing was to allow the U.S. Catholic Conference and its Domestic Policy Committee to present its report, "Homelessness and Housing: A…
Descriptors: Catholics, Church Programs, Church Responsibility, Church Role
