Many secular organizations have come from congregational involvement in various issues.
This is expanding as semi-demi-quasi-church organizations like Bethel New Life in Chicago claim corporate, governmental, and church funds.
The original Inner Missions of the Lutheran Church sought to combine ministry with providing for various needs (nursing homes, orphanages, soldiers' and sailors' missions, hospitals). The political activists moved in and Lutheran Social Services became one of these Non-Governmental Organizations where vast amounts of money was gathered because the government matched church funds.
Lutheran Social Services has been known for working with Missouri and ELCA at the same time. There were efforts to un-splice this relationship, but I doubt whether that lasted.
Long ago, Lutheran Social Services provided abortion counseling (not pro-life) and adoption services for people who vacation at Fire Island Pines.
