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Commission on Special Ministries. WELS Special Ministries will help you reach your community with the Gospel. Your church has something to offer your community that no one else is doing for them. WELS Special Ministries materials are great for outreach!. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Commissionon SpecialMinistries
WELS Special Ministries will help
youreach your community with the
Gospel
Your church has somethingto offer your community
that no one else is doing for them
WELS Special Ministries materials
are great for outreach!
Have your church’s website meet criteria for the blind with internet readers
Advertise that your church can provide large print worship resources.
Offer to bring a blind person to church, do errands for them or come with them to a social event
Help a visually impaired neighbor obtain the free braille and large print materials from WELS
Offer to email your church’s worship folder’s digital file to the blind to convert to Braille
Invite visually impaired people to church and sit with them to explain what they can’t see
Outreach to people who are visually impaired:
Does your church’s website plainly say whether your church is “looped,” has assistive listening devices or interpreted services?
Provide printed sermons or Bible study material or captioned videos on your website
Obtain an interpreter whenever you know a deaf person will attend a wedding, funeral or Sunday worship
Outreach to people who are deaf or hard of hearing
NEW: Through “Video Remote Interpreting”
(VRI) even isolated WELS
congregations can serve a deaf worshiper who signs.
Start a Jesus Cares Ministries Bible class and invite local group homes to bring their residents
Have your teens start a New Friends group and invite community teens with intellectual / developmental disabilities to come
Start a Special Needs Family Network to support parents whose children have special needs
Start a social group for young men and women with higher functioning Autism (Aspergers) to get together
Offer respite care on a regular basis to a neighbor
Outreach to people with an intellectual or developmental disability
Have a group from your church do visitation and devotions for people who will never come to your church!
Adopt a homebound neighbor! Offer respite care or a support
group for caregivers! Parish nurses within your
congregation can offer neighborhood outreach through community health fairs
Outreach to homebound and nursing homes
Send a Spiritual Deployment Kit to someone in service
Befriend a neighbor whose spouse is deployed
Outreach to military families
Train a group to bring the Word to your local jail
Become a Christian penpal or Bible course quiz corrector for prisoners
Outreach to prisoners
WELS Special Ministries equips lay people for
community outreach throughJail Ministry Team
Training
Support his desire to get Chaplain Certification and serve the community as chaplain for the local police, fire, or health care facility.
Keep him and his family encouraged by using Care Committee for Called Worker materials
Tune up your pastor for outreach
Start a Christian support group!
Outreach to people who struggle and seek help
NEW: Addressing Internet porn temptation and addiction
“It teaches us to say, “No!’ to ungodliness and worldly passions and to live self-controlled…lives.”
-Titus 2:12
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Christ-centered path of hope
“Confess your sins to one another and pray for each other in order that you may be healed.”
-James 5:16
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Commissionon SpecialMinistries