Inasmuch Revival Produces 125% Participation
What’s an Inasmuch Revival? It is an effective, intensive way of motivating church folk to be the hands and feet of Jesus in their community. In September, Colosse Baptist Church, West Point, VA, conducted their first Inasmuch Day. They had 125% of their average Sunday attendance involved!! They attribute much of that extraordinary success to […]
SRO for Inasmuch in Milwaukee
It was SRO (standing room only) for the Inasmuch workshops at the Greater Milwaukee Lutheran Synod at the end of May. At the invitation of St. Luke Lutheran Church in Slinger, Wisconsin—the only Inasmuch church in all of Wisconsin at this time—David Crocker exhibited and led two workshops about Inasmuch at the Synod General Assembly. […]
Inasmuch Adds New Ministry
First Question: What is essential, inexpensive, nutritious, fun to make, comes in a cardboard box and feeds 216 hungry people? Answer: One box of 36 bags of Kids Against Hunger meals packed by volunteers and sent to a third world country. Second Question: What is the latest compassion ministry offered by the national office of […]
Inasmuch Assembles 11,000 Meals for the Hungry
In October the Inasmuch ministry assembled more than 11,000 meals to feed hungry people in Haiti with the help of people who gathered in Fayetteville, NC, and Knoxville, TN, to consider their support for the ministry for 2013. That’s right; these annual fundraising events became major service events! Fundraising is the lifeblood of non-profits. It […]
You Care About Me?
Two members of St. James Lutheran Church, Lexington, SC, stand on a rickety porch and nervously await their first door knock of the day. They stand with smoke detectors and batteries in hand hoping to give some away through the course of the day. The door finally opens and a gruff man with tattooed arms […]
What’s in It for Me?
A pastor recently preached on the topic of compassion ministry. He knew that he faced the often unspoken — but real — question many ask when they are challenged to give themselves in ministry to people in need: What’s in it for me? Our society has become so consumer-oriented that this question surfaces whenever we […]
