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STUDIES
 President: Bob Williams
Project Coordinator: Priscilla Martens Faith-Based Welfare Reform The one thing that really makes a difference in someone's life (everyone's life) is developing a caring relationship with that person. A common missing ingredient with most people in need is a personal support system--friends, family, community. Government assistance cannot address these needs, but churches can. The Faith-Based Welfare Reform Project was developed to help churches effectively help the needy. Faith-Based Welfare Reform matches four church volunteer families with one family on welfare. The volunteers and family work together for one year to help the family achieve self-sufficiency. By developing a relationship with the family in need the church volunteers learn what the family's specific problems are, develop goals to resolve those problems, use their own talents and giftings as resources instead of cash assistance, and gradually witness a transformation in that family's life. Now, that's exciting and long-lasting! Any church can participate in Faith-Based Welfare Reform by contacting the Evergreen Freedom Foundation to request a Church Training Manual that provides full details on starting a relational ministry. To order a manual, please send $30 (includes shipping) to Evergreen Freedom Foundation, Faith-Based Welfare Reform Project, P.O. Box 552, Olympia, WA 98507. If you have questions, please e-mail effwa@effwa.org or call (360) 956-3482. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction Relational Ministries Involve Problem Solving
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1 Part Honesty; 2 Parts Arrogance At a March 23, 2005, House Appropriations hearing on a bill to gut the voter-approved I-601 spending limit, Rep. Jim McIntire (D) asked a supporter of I-601’s two-third supermajority requirement for the legislature to raise taxes the following question: "Can you name a time when we [legislators] have actually not just set it [supermajority requirement] aside by majority vote? I mean, this is in many respects a procedural motion that has no bearing. It’s a statutory constraint that cannot constrain any legislature that chooses as a majority to set it aside . . . have we ever used a supermajority [to raise taxes]?" - Rep. Jim McIntire (D - 46) Despite the arrogance of some state officials, Washington's constitution is clear: "All political power is inherent in the people..." |
