The ministry of community organizing is the discipline of building and effectively using the power that people can have in each other; it is therefore democracy in action. It is built around the belief,

Organizing works with people's institutions - churches, parishes, community groups, clubs and fraternal organizations - to build the capacity, abilities and willingness of people to "take on" the power structures of their world that are not serving the poor but serving only their own ends, bringing these public and private agencies to the place where they cooperate with the organized wishes of the people.

The result of effective organizing is politics practiced more justly, wealth more equitably distributed and a deeper relationship of the people with each other and with God.