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Keith Wasserman has been traveling and speaking about being involved in the lives of people who experience vulnerability and who feel excluded for 40+ years. Keith speaks about the biblical principals employed through Good Works to carry out our mission. Keith speaks 50 + times a year around the US on many different topics including how the church and community can care for those who are vulnerable, economically impoverished, socially excluded and those some considered by some as ‘unimportant’. A special focus of Keith’s presentations are those who struggle with poverty, and those scripture identifies in the old testament as “the widow, the orphan and the stranger”. Keith speaks at Sunday morning worship services, youth groups, university classes, seminary classes, men’s groups, women’s groups and civic clubs.

Click here for a list of places he has spoken.

To arrange for a presentation on Good Works history/ministry,
contact Keith Wasserman by phone at 740.541.0816 or e-mail.

  • Keith contributed to the Living into Community Series at Asbury Theological Seminary in February of 2024.
  • Keith gave this sermon at Asbury Theological Seminary Chapel in the spring of 2022
  • Keith gave this 31 minute talk on Life Prayers on June 12, 2022
  • This presentation was given by Keith in Champaign, Illinois in February 2020. It is primarily about a few of the practices that the Good Works community embraces that sustain community. This talk highlights one form of gratitude and truth-telling.
  • This interview with Keith took place in the spring of 2020. It is an Asbury Theological Seminary podcast called Thrive. There is some brief Good Works history and then a broad conversation about the many transferable principals of love and service employed by Good Works.
  • This 25 minute video and preaching took place in June of 2019 at Epworth UMC in Toledo Ohio. The passage is from Luke 10: 25-37.
  • This 40 minute presentation on the Foundations of Good Works was presented at Bethel Worship Center in March of 2019
  • The 1 hour presentation was provided by Keith to Ohio University students in September 2018 during their Wealth and Poverty week.
  • This 27 minute sermon was given at St. James UMC in Little Rock Arkansas as part of a weekend lecture series.
  • This 45 minute presentation  about the mission and vision of Good Works was given to the Church of the Messiah in Xenia, Ohio.
  • This 12 minute presentation “What would a community look like based out of the ethic of hospitality” was given in Chicago. Keith reflects on the impact of the work of Christine Pohl.
  • This presentation entitled HOMELESSNESS: THE VIEW FROM THE OTHER SIDE Part 1 and Part 2 was given at Cornerstone Festival.
  • RISK YOUR LIFE FOR A CHANGE: Steps to opening opportunities for individuals and organizations to help the poor and needy. Drama along with the parable of the hallway explains how we begin the journey of ministry through commitment. To listen to this message, we have MP3 files available! The message is in 6 parts:
  • THE POOR YOU WILL HAVE WITH YOU ALWAYS? Keith challenges us to live out the Kingdom of God by inviting the poor into our social lives. A sermon given at Ebenezer Church of Christ.

Presentation topics:

  • HAVING A PASSION FOR COMPASSION: a motivational talk about being involved in the lives of people who cannot repay us. Keith explores the contemporary values of worship, fellowship, discipleship and evangelism and explains how these cherished kingdom values still fall short of God’s will for the church to DO JUSTLY!
  • GOD GOES THE DISTANCE: A motivational talk about how Jesus relates to the woman from Samaria in John chapter four. Keith explains Jesus’ unique approach to conversation with this woman and how this relates to Jesus’ approach to people who have experienced rejection and abuse.
  • GOOD WORKS PHILOSOPHY OF MINISTRY: An interesting explanation on the five areas of the Good Works ministry.
  • LIFE PRAYERS: A motivational talk about the adversity revealed in the lives of Joseph, Job and Jesus. This presentation focuses on the importance of having life prayers and how these prayers shape us into deeper people who love and know Christ.
  • THE MISSION: This message explores the five questions Moses asks God in Exodus three. Keith explains that everyone in mission must ask these very questions and that if people are not asking these questions, they are not in mission.
  • THE RITE OF PASSAGE: A Power Point presentation on the rite of passage year Keith and Darlene took their son Timothy on to give him a lens through which he would see people in poverty around the world and a reference point for the rest of his life.
  • WITH WHOM IS GOD CONCERNED? This talk reveals the people God is most concerned about and why. Keith explores the issues facing the three people groups spoken about in scripture over and over again: The widow, the fatherless and the stranger.
  • HOMELESS BY CHOICE? This message explains why Keith has taken journeys into 11 cities in the US and what he has learned from being homeless by choice.