10 Reasons Care Centers Are Great Places for Ministry

1. Care centers provide an avenue to obey God, Who tells us to serve the downcast and rejected.
2. Care centers offer numerous opportunities for evangelism.
3. Care center residents will increase your trust in a sovereign God.
4. Care centers make available a place of real and life-impacting ministry for young men contemplating or heading into the ministry.
5. Care centers present a way to teach children to love their neighbor.
6. Care centers remind us that sickness and death are coming.
7. Care centers put you in the presence of older saints who are persevering in the Lord.
8. Care centers put you in the presence of people who have hardened their hearts, rejected Christ, and may never again have a coherent thought.
9. Care centers open doors to new relationships with those related to or associated with the residents.
10. Care Centers provide a ministry environment where what really matters takes priority.

Resources Referenced in this Episode:

• “10 Reasons Why Nursing Homes Are Great Places to Minister” by Jim Eliff