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According to D. Michael Lindsay, a consultant for religion and culture to the Gallup Institute, there are two critical moments when a person might lessen or increase their involvement in a local church “times of relocation and family transition.”

“As a result,” Lindsay says, “church leaders must be mindful of the importance of reaching out to newcomers in their community and helping people deal with the personal sense of brokenness that often accompanies death and divorce.”

—REV, January/February 2004, p. 122. Illustration by Jim L. Wilson

Matthew 18:12 NASB "What do you think? If any man has a hundred sheep, and one of them has gone astray, does he not leave the ninety-nine on the mountains and go and search for the one that is straying?