The Community-Minded Church: Resources for Connecting with the World Outside Your Walls

Providing a cooked meal to the hungry, offering shelter on a cold night, and hosting activities for special needs children are just a few of the areas a church can reach out and make a difference within its community. However, it's not as simple as it sounds; intentionally molding your church s ministries to suit the needs of your community can be a difficult and daunting task.In The Community-Minded Church, Stan Toler provides effective tools to help your church shape its ministries and further its outreach. By profiling eight successful ministries from across the country, he highlights specific people groups and how their needs are being met by the churches in their communities. With solid biblical reasoning and experienced, practical guidance, Toler offers pastors and ministry leaders the examples, forms, and other informational pieces to reference as they expound and maximize their roles in their communities.