INNER CITY MINISTRIES

The ministry to which a person is called when he or she becomes an inner city coordinator or urban ministries coordinator can best be described in the following ways: 

1. Identifying needs. The inner city coordinator tries to be aware of conditions in the community and the metro area. 

2. Community relations. The urban church must relate to a complex community situation where there are many diverse groupings instead of one culture. The inner city coordinator helps the church to find ways to establish a caring, healing relationship with each group. 

3. Advocacy. The inner city coordinator has the responsibility of communicating the needs of hurting people and stimulating discontent about painful conditions in the community. 

4. Program development. Special programs of urban ministry have been set up by Adventist churches in many large cities in the United States and Canada. Sometimes these are directed by the Community Services leader, personal ministries leader, health-temperance leader, Adventist Youth Society or a Community Services Center. At times they are managed by the inner city coordinator.

 Leader: Sonia Green