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Institute Of Faith, Family and Workspace
Category: Volunteer & Mission
Start Date: December 13, 2019
Institute of Faith, Family and Workspace ©
In Obedience to the Catholic Church let's be Drawn To The Truth ©
What Is Our Big Hairy Audacious Goal?
One Soul at a time be Drawn to the Truth, with hopes of one million by 2030.
We serve, protect and promote the dignity of every single human person's personhood through applying Catholic Social Doctrine, Works of Mercy, and Divine Will within Faith, Family and Workspace as Missionaries of the Family Life and Workspace Missionaries in obedience to the Catholic Church Ritual.
1. Increase church attendance and reception of Sacraments/Mysteries.
2. Increase tithe, alms-giving, and fasting within church community.
3. Increase church community volunteerism and family life.
4. Serve, protect and promote human person's personhood where there is a gap.
5. Increase usage of the principles of social doctrine within faith, family and workspace.
6. Serve, protect and promote human person's personhood in faith, family and workspace.
7. Live out missionary life to serve in God's Will and not with a program concept.
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Anna and Bobby La londe met in Emmanuel Christian Retreat Center serving x-felons and x-addicts.
Their meeting was Love At First Flight © because everyone was setting them up and they were not interested, that is until God ordained the pastor to invite each of them to speak.
It was in those two Sunday events that they suddenly were floored by one another's life journey, and how both were so devoted to serving God through the Works of Mercy and God's Will after their life journey returned them to a convicted walk with Christ.
Their courtship relationship was born in the city of Bethlehem and within five months they became inseparable.
Anna and Bobby were so much alike, that not only were they of the same faith, they were the same height, had same color of hair, hand size and personality but just 19 years apart in age.
When Anna was a little girl, all she could vision was her life serving as a missionary.
When Bobby was young, all he could see was his life as a pastor.
Yet, their life separately was a journey of Works of Mercy and God's Will serving others.
That is until they met, and their life entwined after five months as one unit of serving others through Works of Mercy and God's Will through ten years of marriage.
It began with their engagement when she told him to feed the poor instead of buying her a new engagement ring.
Then they chose on their wedding day to serve their guests dinner plates instead of being served as a sign of living out a Missionary life serving God's Works of Mercy and Providence.
Without an official non-profit status they stepped out and helped...
- prevented abortions and offered adoption or support
- guided addicts to quit and return / come to God
- helped marriages become stronger
- fostered 100 plus kids
- prayed healing prayers over 1000's of strangers
- advocated parental rights
- assisted poor in building businesses
- collect household goods airing on FOX News for flood victims
- prevented foster children from forced birth control and abortions
- helped Catholics return to their faith who fell away
They founded the local chapter of St. Paul Street Evangelization as the first married couple leadership team.
https://streetevangelization.
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What are the Works of Mercy?
The Corporal and Spiritual Works of Mercy are actions we can perform that extend God’s compassion and mercy to those in need. "The works of mercy are charitable actions by which we come to the aid of our neighbor in his spiritual and bodily necessities" (Roman Catholic - Catechism of the Catholic Church, 2447).
THE 7 SPIRITUAL WORKS OF MERCY
THE 7 CORPORAL WORKS OF MERCY
The human person is the clearest reflection of God’s presence in the world.
Catholic social teaching is designed to protect and promote the dignity of every person.
It is not a comprehensive policy statement but rather a set of questions that we might consistently ask ourselves as we respond to the world around us.
Ten Principles of Catholic Social Teaching
Human dignity emerges neither from what people accomplish or own, but because we are created in the image and likeness of God. Consequently, every person is worthy of respect simply by virtue of being a human being. People do not lose the right to being treated with respect because of disability, poverty, age, lack of success or race, let alone gain the right to be treated with greater respect because of what they own or accomplish.
An implication of the first principle is that every person, from the moment of conception to natural death has an inherent dignity and a right to life consistent with the dignity that is ours as human beings. The Catholic tradition sees the sacredness of human life as part of any moral vision for a just and good society.
The human person is not only sacred, but also social. We cannot consider a person simply as an isolated individual but as part of a rich tapestry of relationships. When making decisions which impact on the lives of others, we must consider how it impacts on that person’s connections with family, friends and the wider community.
People have a right to shape their own lives and the society in which they live. They should participate in decision processes which impact on their lives and cannot be consider the passive recipients of other people’s decisions. We each have a responsibility to be shapers of the kind of world in which we wish to live.
In a world where we see deepening divisions between rich and poor, the powerful and the powerless, the Catholic tradition reminds us that God stands firmly on the side of the most marginalised members of society. While every person’s needs are important, we must consider first and foremost how the lives of the most vulnerable people are impacted or enhanced by decisions we make.
We are our brothers’ and sisters’ keepers. Learning to practice the virtue of solidarity means learning that ‘loving our neighbour’ is not, in the words of Pope John Paul II, “a feeling of vague compassion or shallow distress at the misfortunes of so many people. On the contrary, it is a firm and persevering determination to commit oneself to the common good; that is to say, to the good of all and of each individual, because we are all really responsible for all.”
We show respect for the Creator by our stewardship of creation. We have a responsibility to care for the world’s goods as stewards and trustees, not primarily, let alone merely, as consumers. As people working toward making these principles a reality, good stewardship also means making careful and responsible decisions with the resources entrusted to us.
The word subsidiarity comes from the Latin word subsidium which means help, aid or support. The principle of subsidiarity means clearly determining the right amount of help or support that is needed to accomplish a task or to meet an obligation: “not too much” (taking over and doing it for the other: thereby creating learned helplessness or overdependence) and “not too little” (standing back and watching people thrash about, thereby increasing frustration and perhaps hopelessness). The principle might be better summarised as ‘no bigger than necessary, no smaller than appropriate’.
Given that every human being is entitled to respect and dignity merely because she/he has been created in the image and likeness of God, it follows that there is a radical equality among all human beings. After all, as George Cladis points out: “competition is alien within God.” This principle lies close to the surface in every Australian. We talk of it in terms of giving people a fair go.
A community is genuinely healthy when every single person is flourishing. This is not the utilitarian formula of the greatest good for the greatest number, but the moral formula of the greatest good for all, simply on the basis that they are human beings and therefore inherently worthy of respect.