Responsabilidad social de la iglesia y la intervención social

Abstract

Churches have a variety of activities that they work with different specific groups, just few of them do structured projects. They work with church's volunteers that are not always trained to work with those groups. The present investigation has the objective to diagnose the social responsibility of the Church of God in Ecuador and its social intervention. The methodology used had a mixed point of view, quantitative and qualitative, a survey was applied to 151 pastors from Church of God in Ecuador and 7 social incidence leaders from this organization were interviewed. The instruments used were validated by professionals. The results proved that the social responsibility and the social intervention have biblical back up, the activities that churches do in favor of society are based on love for the neighbor, in the same way, the humanist existential model is related to Christian mind. In conclusion, Church of God in Ecuador works with empirical social interventions in their social development projects. This organization requires a change in its social incidence activities, a qualified staff is needed to make social interventions and lead the churches projects, in addition to that, an intervention protocol. The use of a social intervention protocol was proposed, to be applied in a social development area, professionals need to be included as part of this area, the functions that they have to accomplish, the service route and activities for different topics that can be used in their intervention.