Church and Mental Health: Navigating Healing

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Problem:

Many Christ-followers have difficulty navigating the distinction and overlap of mental health, mental illness, and mental wellness. We all are in need of healing. Jesus designed the Church to be a mobile hospital, not a stationary hotel.

For freedom did Christ set us free: stand fast therefore, and be not entangled again in a yoke of bondage - Galatians 5:1

Solution:

The Body of Christ is equipped and experienced at the healing arts of body, mind, and soul - growing in Freedom individually and collectively.

Don't be conformed to the patterns of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds so that you can figure out what God's will is—what is good and pleasing and mature. - Romans 2:2

Strategy:

• Asset-Map (regionally):

• equipped and experienced mental health professionals

• congregational and lay leaders who have received some-level of training and healing

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• Host small and large group gatherings, interconnecting like-focused equipped individuals

• Compile national resources and local initiatives into a toolbox that could be implemented collectively

• Create a gap-analysis of who needs equipping

• Consider the needs of Leaders

• Create goals and a plan to build holistic care ministry for leaders, congregants, and community

• Equip congregations based on demographics served and/or interested in

• Create master-regional calendar of trainings, events, and gatherings to increase attendance and connectivity and decrease duplication of services

• Utilize below resources and others to track and grow number of folks equipped

Watch this 90 second video to understand the problem and solution

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Equipping Resources Filtered by Focus Area:

• Mental Health Competent Churches & Care Ministry:

• Hope Made Strong

• Care Ministry

• Church and Mental Health Summit

• Thrive & Cultivate Summit

• Hope 4 Mental Health (Saddleback)

• Pain to Purpose

• Children's Ministry

• Pastor and Leader Resources:

• Common Table Network

• Caring for Clergy

• Full Strength Network

• Pastor Serve

• Made to Flourish

• The Emotionally Healthy Leader

• Practicing the Way

• ... and so many more

• All:

• Becoming a Church that Cares Well for the Abused

• Trauma Free World

• For Christians who are Mental Health Professionals:

• National Association of Christian Social Workers

• Christian Counseling and Education Foundation

• American Association of Christian Counselors

• In-person Training (Greater Dayton):

• Dayton Community Impact Center (CIC):

• Connect and inquire about what you or your organization/region needs.

• Think Tank

• Cost of Poverty Experience (COPE)

• ADAMHS Board

• Youth:

• Trafficking:

• Scarlet Hope

• Domestic Abuse:

• Protect the Flock

• Child Welfare:

• Trust-Based Relational Intervention (TBRI) and many others

• Hope for the Journey Conference

• Replanted Conference

• Addiction and Recovery:

• Recovery Friendly Churches

• Personal Trauma for Adults:

• Nothing is Wasted Resources & Community

• Counseling/Therapy

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Starting in utero, we were designed to be safe, seen, soothed, and secure.

Wounds from the past subconsciously dictate current maladaptive thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. We are bound to these lies until we look them in the eye with God and others, allowing the truth to set us free.

With God and in trustable community, we navigate deep inner healing. We heal so to live grounded in a deep and settled peace, with little to hide, prove, or fear.

We can not give what we do not have. We don't wake up one day being someone we have not been becoming. We are invited into this liberating work. As we are gradually liberated, our presence liberates others, from glory to glory.

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