How one church finds and deploys an untapped wealth of talent.

"Our pastors see the benefit in freeing volunteer leaders to do what God is calling them to do, and then they empower us to do it," says Clark Millspaugh, a volunteer at Eugene Field.

NAMB Missionaries: 5,126

• 1,444 are career;
• 1,682 receive short-term funding;
• 2,000 are Mission Service Corps missionaries

New Church Starts 1,781

“The number-one activity that draws congregations into partnership with other community organizations is direct service to people in immediate need.”

• "59% of the individual church members surveyed claim that they participated in community service organizations at least a few times a year."
• “79% of the individual church members claim that they at least ‘occasionally’ provide  informal service to people in need.”

For research information, see Report: Doing Good in American Communities

• Doing Good in American Communities:Congregations & Service Organizations Working Together (A Research Report from the Organizaing Religious Work Project) Hartford Institute for Religion Research, Hartford Seminary, Professor Nancy T. Ammerman, Project Director
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