1) Do the General assemblies financialy support any orphan/ needy based ministries on an annual basis? If so, how much?

2)Does your local congregation set aside money in the yearly budget for orphans and the poor?

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Joe
Presbyterian Reformed Church of Charlotte
SC

The PCA has at least, is it, Thornwell Home or something like that in MS? We're not PCA, but our church has heavily supported an orphanage in Myanmar for several years and there is a lot of focus by other Reformed and Presbyterians there as well.

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LAYMAN JOE;

not sure...

Our church helps support a place called Seamark Ranch, though right now they are still in the building stages...

http://www.seamarkranch.com/index.html


this link is to our Mercy Ministry page, and it only covers some of the things we do...

http://www.pinewoodpca.org/Pagebodies/mercymainbody.htm

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Bobbi Clark
Covenant Member
Pinewood Pres. (PCA) Middleburg

When I kept Silent, My bones wasted away through my groaning all day long. Psalm 32:3

PCA supports Bethany Christian Services Adoption Agency, http://www.bethany.org/

And many churches in our presbytery support Eagle Ranch Boys Home nearby, http://www.eagleranch.org/

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David Kicklighter
East Lanier Community Church (PCA)
Buford, GA

wow Bobbi, Thats a good thing you guys have going on.

Any reccomendations on starting up some type of mercy ministry for a church that does nothing of the sort. They recognize the fact that they need to do something, but cant figure out what to do.

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Joe
Presbyterian Reformed Church of Charlotte
SC

see:

Tim Keller's Ministries of Mercy: The Call of the Jericho Road, the second half is practical advice. or George Grant's The Micah Mandate. MNA has a ministries of mercy webpage at: http://www.pca-mna.org/mercy%20ministries/mercy.htm

perhaps the best online essay is at:
http://thirdmill.org/magazine/search...y/pt/site/iiim
Weighty Matters: An Essay Concerning the Tendency of Conservative Presbyterians, And the American Church At-Large, to Neglect Ministries of Justice and Mercy

Social Justice, Mercy Ministry links list at monergism is at: http://www.monergism.com/thethreshol...aljustice.html
an excellent reading list is posted to: http://www.eldrbarry.net/ug/mercy.htm

another church webpage on ministries of mercy is T.Keller's Redeemer in Manhattan at: http://www.redeemer2.com/care/index.cfm

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