Mobilizing Your Church for Effective Mercy Ministry: A Seminar by Randy Nabors

I was reading through a notebook from this 2006 seminar and came across this quote:

"We want this mobilization to result in effective mercy ministry, and not just a new organizational chart, or new pamphlets, or new slogans. Effectiveness implies really solving a problem or meeting a need. Far too often we engage in producing repetitive activities that don't seem to move us very far ahead in accomplishing anything. Mercy seeks to eliminate need, to heal the sick, to feed the poor, to house the homeless, to give hope to the hopeless, and not to keep people in perpetual need and make them dependent. This is tough, and it will require wisdom from God."

What do you think?

Hope: what we do

It just occurred to me that I have not made much of an effort to explain what it is we do at Hope for Northwest Georgia.

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Hope for Northwest Georgia

Hope for Northwest Georgia equips churches to minister to the poor in Northwest Georgia. Churches in our area have long-attempted to minister the love of Christ to the poor and needy in our community, but have struggled to find a way to do so which promotes long-term change and Gospel transformation. Hope for Northwest Georgia helps churches minister in ways which manifest the love of Christ and promote real and lasting change.

Hope for Northwest Georgia is not a para-church ministry, operating outside of the local church, but rather a cooperative ministry of churches in the North Georgia area. Hope does not replace church ministry, but establishes ministry in local churches, organizes cooperative ministry between local churches, and equips local churches to work with the poor in the love of Christ.

As a ministry of cooperation and coordination, Hope builds on assets and services already in the community. Hope seeks to engage and partner with other organizations, individuals and services, being salt and light, and pooling (and organizing) or resources in partnership rather than either competition or isolation.

What are the ministries of Hope for Northwest Georgia?
1) Community Resource Coordination
2) Community Development/Mercy Ministry Training for Churches
3) Jobs for Life Job Training Program
4) Financial Literacy and Financial Counseling

Ways to help Hope for Northwest Georgia
1) Become a Prayer Partner, and sign up for the email prayer letter.
2) Becomg a Ministry Partner with a regular financial gift.
3) Become a Church Partner by committing regular financial support.

Thank you for your interest in Hope for Northwest Georgia. For more information, please contact us through the address below:


Hope for Northwest Georgia
P.O. Box 161
3371 Chattanooga Valley Road
Flintstone, GA 30725
(706) 820-2833
heather.hope4nwga@gmail.com