This reflects the kind of work we think is the right way to do ministry, here in Pueblo Nuevo and in a lot (most?) of places:

“Atheism (Christianity) has been specially advanced through the loving service rendered to strangers, and through their care for the burial of the dead. It is a scandal that there is not one single Jew who is a beggar, and that the godless Galileans care not only for their own poor but for ours as well; while those who belong to us look in vain for the help that we should render them.” Roman Emperor Julian the Apostate (A.D. 332-36)

In other words, the early Church let their actions do their talking, and God used that in a powerful way.