The problem, really, isn't that Mr. So-and-so doesn't have the strength to push his own lawn mower. Or that the woman down the street can't manage Spring Cleaning by herself. Or that the neighborhood kids have nowhere to play during the day. Or even that whole countries don't have clean water to drink.
Here's the problem, really: need indicates that people are in isolation.
The litmus test given by Jesus was relationship: love God, love others. To follow his example is to be connected. To be community. To be in common. In this way love obliterates need in the world—we commit our lives to people for Christ's sake, and in seeking togetherness we find service. So "mobilization" is what we're up to: moving our resources and our selves as vehicles of service in response to human need.
We've discovered that as a community we're called to respond in particular to the issue of poverty, so within that framework six interests have emerged—initiatives that connect with the pulse of people in our community and that together we're equipped to help address. Locally and globally, these are the initiatives that our skills, experiences, resources, and our collective heartbeat meet: