Paul is the Little Rock director for Here's Life Inner City, Campus Crusade's inner-city ministry. After meeting with Helen several times in the south office of DHS, Paul connected her with pastor Mark Evans at The Church at Rock Creek. All of these programs are self-funded, even though welfare reform law allows for government funding. And the fact of the matter is, we've been mandated by the Word of God to do it anyway. We need to get tens of thousands of churches involved.
Involvement requires commitment.
Not all the participants will appreciate the program, particularly at first. During the second class in North Little Rock, one woman complained that the class was just a waste of time since she will probably get laid off of her job after graduating. That would put her back on welfare again, back where she started. Most of them feel they don't need this and that it is just a part of the system. We have to focus on doing the will of God.