Ministry encompasses the concrete ways Christians demonstrate love and service by addressing others’ spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical needs.1 The term itself derives from words in Greek and Hebrew meaning simply “service,”
the family functions as the first school of faith and the primordial experience of communion
The phrase “family is the first ministry” captures a theological conviction that runs through both Catholic and Protestant thought: the family functions as the first school of faith and the primordial experience of communion1.
