and improves the quality of human life with functional and professional approach. Church
social welfare can be defined as performing social services in a religious unit called church.
„Social welfare‟ and „church social welfare‟ seek some similar ideas.
First, their ideas focus on restoration of human dignity and restoration of human
beings. The restoration of human dignity is done with the ideas of recovery of human beings.
Social Welfare seeks the restorations in social aspects, and Church Social Welfare seeks
restoration in spiritual aspects. Especially, Church Social Welfare intends humanity, who was
created in the image of God, given dignity, given equal rights, and given social responsibility,
to recover its image to “God‟s Image”.
Second, as philanthropic systems, both Social Welfare and Church Social Welfare
start with social concern for those who are socially disadvantaged. The basic concept consists
of sacred philanthropic view which is loving humanity and treating human nobly.
Third, both the Social Welfare and Church Social Welfare have altruistic
characteristics, because they both sacrifice themselves to be blessings to others. Basic code of
conduct of social workers is to live thoroughly unselfishness life.
In the meantime, Church Social Welfare and Social Welfare have clear differences.
Here are some examples: first, the purposes for each are very different. The foremost purpose
of social welfare is to adjust those who are not adjusted in the world, but Church Social
Welfare has broader meanings. In other words, the Church Social Service not only has its
purpose to assist those who are socially unadjusted, but also has greater purpose which is to
recover dignity of human beings. The main purpose also includes spiritual healing.
Second, the objects of study are different. The main subject of the Church Social
Service is God, but the main subject of general Social Welfare is humanity. The study areas
are different too. Church social welfare mainly studies problems dealing with doctrines, but
Social Welfare deals with problems of poverty, disability, elderly, children, and adolescents.