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One Hundred Years Of Social Ministry-Now What?, Leslie F. Weber
One Hundred Years Of Social Ministry-Now What?, Leslie F. Weber
Concordia Theological Monthly
Organized social ministry in The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, officially begun in 1950 by the creation of a synodical Board of Social Welfare, is in 1968 actually in its centennial year. While it is striving to discover newer and better ways to reach troubled people and in this sense may be rebelling against the past to a certain degree, it is by no means willing to ignore the foundations and activities of the past, which have abundantly demonstrated that faith has been at work within our churches in deeds of love.