Good works go unnoticed

Posted on July 25, 2017 by Michigan

This summer 21 interns are serving in urban and rural areas across the Detroit Conference. They engage in bridge-building ministries that one survey shows are often under the radar.

Religion News Service reports on a Lifeway survey of social services provided by the church.
(RNS) — At least half of Americans realize that churches feed and clothe the poor but far fewer are aware of other social services that congregations provide, a new study shows.

LifeWay Research found that 60 percent of Americans know of churches that have fed the hungry in the last six months. Half knew of instances where they provided clothing to the poor.

But scant percentages of the 1,000 Americans surveyed knew that church members teach job skills or help immigrants learn English (13 percent), volunteer to provide foster care (12 percent) or offer tax preparation assistance (8 percent).

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