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In our fax-paced age, when personal contact is often replaced by the technological touch, it is not easy to care personally for parishioners. You see many members only on Sunday morning. Those who are inactive you see approximately two times a year. Because families are so busy, you may be discouraged about finding your members at home. And if you’re buried under administrative details, pastoral...

Those Rotarians have already helped many people in their volunteer work, but beyond that, they themselves will never be the same. Phil Smart began to change how those Rotarians viewed the city. I could never reach eight hundred people in Rotary, but Phil could and did. The real measure of a church is the number of people in ministry, and central to pastoral care is putting people in ministry and supporting them in their ministries—material ministries, spiritual ministries, healing ministries, and
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