Efforts ranged from family ministries in individual churches to «parachurch» pastoral groups such as James Dobson's Focus on the Family to national political organizations such as Jerry Falwell's Moral Majority. (firstthings.com)
Elders is discarding the final links to a failed conglomerate structure built up in the heady pre-GFC days with a buyout of $ 107 million of hybrid securities to return it fully to a pure - play pastoral group. (afr.com)