Mend - “I am with you always.”
The Church of Jesus Christ is a fellowship and every local church body is an individual expression of His Body. The Body of Christ is as diverse as the needs of every individual in the Church. All of us are in the process of becoming; we are becoming the persons that God would have us to be. Jesus’s words of comfort in this aspect of the mission guide us corporately towards nurture, fellowship, and meaningful interaction that has family and belonging in view. Mending ministries reflect pastoral care, personal visitation and communication, counseling, caring for the ill and elderly, and a myriad of other ministry methods in which common human needs are discovered, shared, and lovingly addressed. Whatever we have “done to the least of these,” has also been done to Jesus. (Matthew 25:33-46, James 2:14-26)