Orphanages The Role of the Church and State A New Telescopic View on Mission to the Poor in our Midst

Understanding the role and mission of the Church of Christ is most important in the new evangelization process of our time. It is not enough to understand the readings of theology and doctrines of the church, it is more important to actualize and effect the mandate of Christ to His Church “Peacebe with you. As the Father has sent me, so I send you” Jn. 20 21 . 13 34 – 35 . One aspect of this mission mandate, which characterizes the sum up of the Ten Commandments of God, is this message of practical Love, a Christianity in action, practical Christianity. A mission to revisit the conditions of the poor ones in our midst today. In our world today, everyone sees himself or herself as poor, even those who are very rich in the material things of the world. Yes, we do agree that everyone is poor in one special way or the other, however, the authors here are concerned about those who in the real sense of poverty, you may be far better. The authors are not concerned here also with the “poor in Spirit”, Rather we intend to address the issue of physical and material poverty the hungry, the physically challenged, the hospitalized, those in prison, the poor widows and widowers, the orphans, the poor fatherless or motherless children, those living on the streets, beggars, abused children, abused girls and girls teenagers , Refugees, victims of various circumstances such as war, communal conflicts, school dropouts, children outside legal marriages, etc. The authors believe there are much more the Church can do to find lasting solutions to these phenomena. Although the Church is very much pathetic about the situation and cries aloud like John the Baptist in the wilderness against the situation, and also acknowledging that the Church is recorded as the biggest humanitarian in the world, we here intend to further recommend a seemingly better ways the Church can be more practical in achieving this pastoral mandate. This work will be divided into volumes, volumes addressing these phenomena so outlined above and more. These Homes are just a very few selected to showcase a practical knowledge of what the authors intend to describe, it could therefore be applied to anywhere in Africa and other Regions in the world. Azebeokhai, Benedict Oshiokhamele "Orphanages: The Role of the Church and State: A New Telescopic View on Mission to the Poor in our Midst" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-5 | Issue-4 , June 2021, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.compapers/ijtsrd41138.pdf Paper URL: https://www.ijtsrd.comhumanities-and-the-arts/other/41138/orphanages-the-role-of-the-church-and-state-a-new-telescopic-view-on-mission-to-the-poor-in-our-midst/azebeokhai-benedict-oshiokhamele