Thom O'Leary Mountainbrook - Faith in Action: Connecting Welfare with Spiritual Life

Where faith meets action, something beautiful happens. Spirituality is linked with service, a catalyst that transforms, giving hope and healing to the afflicted. Faith-based welfare is not about doled. It is about lifting hearts, strengthening communities, and reflecting love through deeds. Pastor Thom O'Leary has spent decades showing how connecting faith to action creates change that can endure and helps us to see just how spirituality fuels our mission of caring. Spirituality: The Ground on Which Compassion Flourishes It's a drive for more than what is contained within our own persons—how we treat others. Throughout history, churches and faith leaders have led welfare initiatives on everything from feeding the hungry to sheltering the homeless. "True faith looks outward," Pastor Thom O'Leary Mountainbrook Church said, "It's about being God's hands and feet in the world." That kind of thinking places a call on our hearts to think of oth...