God help the jobless

摘要

Being unemployed in the wake of the worst recession since the 1930s is enough to tax anyone's faith. So a growing number of churches, particularly the large evangelical kind, are ministering to the jobless through programmes offering spiritual as well as professional help.rn"Being out of work can be a time of faith renewal," says Jay Litton, leader of the Job Networking Ministry at Roswell United Methodist Church in a suburb of Atlanta, Georgia, which attracts more than 400 unemployed people of all faiths to its weekly two-hour gatherings. "We believe God should be a part of the job search."