Kim Moore, J.D., United Methodist Health Ministry Fund
The current debate about government funding has sparked renewed interest in faith-based organizations and their role in meeting the economic, health, and educational needs of society. The small, open country chapel…the urban church with declining parishioners and rising community needs…the burgeoning suburban congregation of young families…the mega-church with a multimillion dollar budget…all are lumped together with countless other religious groups as one solution to the nation’s needs. Yet the experience of the United Methodist Health Ministry Fund indicates that the diversity of the congregational world is similar to that of the foundation world: Once you know one church (foundation), you know one church (foundation).
8/13/2001 — 145KB