CLS is thankful for the extraordinary number of big and small ways we can follow Christ's example, using CLS' ministries, to assist others through CLS staff and our members' local and national efforts. Here are some of those ways:

CLS equips attorneys for service:

• Through our web site, CLS connects attorneys with prayer, fellowship, legal referral, law placement, advocacy, jurisprudential and other CLS membership resources and services.
• By publishing a unique, national member directory and maintaining a legal referral network that received over 150 requests per week. Christian attorneys, judges and law students across the nation can locate each other and be located through the CLS membership directory and the national lawyer referral network.
• By providing instructive, informative and inspirational publications, resources and seminars on the Christ-centered practice of law.
• By fostering local ministry by attorneys and law students, individually, and t hrough CLS chapters.
• By offering training in how to provide legal assistance and other help for the truly needy in a Christian manner, CLS encourages its members to not only improve their communities, but to increase their own zeal for God by obeying His commandments.
• By offering or co-sponsoring continuing legal educational opportunities, particularly in the fields of legal ethics, jurisprudence, legal aid, law office management, non-profit organizations, family law, alternative dispute resolution, religious liberty and sanctity of human life defense.

CLS protects and advances the inalienable rights to religious freedom and the sanctity of human life:

• By recruiting and equipping Christian lawyers with the counsel and practical tools they need to defend religious liberty on "the front lines" in their local communities.
• By expanding the Center for Law and Religious Freedom's (CLRF) legal services in 1993 to include the advocacy of the sanctity of innocent human life from conception to natural death in all available legal fora.
• By responding to legislators, ministries, educators and laypeople with legal analyses and an experiences and reasoned perspective on the legal rights and ethical opportunities available to the Christian community.
• By long serving as a leader and coalition-builder among the broad variety of religious and public interest groups interested in the protection of religious freedom in America, leading to such legislative or executive branch accomplishments as the Equal Access Act (1984), the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (1993), Department of Education Guidelines on the Current Law in the Public Schools (1995), Presidential Directive: Guidelines on Religious Exercise and Religious Expression in the Federal Workplace (1997) the "charitable choice" provisions of The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (H.R.3734), Charitable Donation Protection Act of 1998 (H.R.2604, S.1244), and the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 (S. 1868, H.R.2461), Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000.
• By representing and serving as counsel of record in the public interest, through its affiliated public interest law firms, CLRF Advocated, Inc. (doing business as Religious Liberty Advocates or Human Life Advocates), a selected group of individuals and organizations whose legal claims raise novel or significant issues respecting religious freedom or the sanctity of human life.
• By contributing, in cooperation with the Alliance Defense Fund, to the growing Blackstone Legal Resource Center www.blrc.org that provides both public information and more specialized legal information useful to the Center's staff and volunteer attorneys.

CLS reaches out to the more than 120,000 law students in America:

• By establishing law student chapters on more than 180 law school campuses in the USA.
• By establishing a national and local network of attorney mentors for law students.
• By establishing the Institute for Christian Legal Studies as a joint ministry with Regent Law School
• By maintaining a web site based law placement service.
• By annually sponsoring or co-sponsoring national and regional law student leadership conferences, and other law internship opportunities

CLS advocates and promotes biblical conflict reconciliation:

• By being a "Partner in Peacemaking" with Peacemaker Ministries, and a signatory to the "Peacemaker's Pledge".
• By partnering with like-minded Christians and Christian organizations, CLS trains and encourages its members to equip and assist churches, ministries and Christian organizations to respond to conflict biblically.
• By promoting Biblical principles of reconciliation in personal and community relationships.
• By promoting and facilitating Christian mediation and conciliation various agencies, particularly the Institute for Christian Conciliation, as a viable means of alternative dispute resolution.

CLS promotes equal access to justice for the truly poor and needy

• By encouraging churches and CLS member attorneys, law students and paralegals to creatively provide legal aid to the poor, particularly through CLS' Christian Legal Services Program
• By developing resources and training opportunities for CLS members designed to f acilitate the provision of legal aid to the poor.
• By developing joint ventures with other Christian organizations assisting the poor, particularly the International Union of Gospel Missions and the Salvation Army.