Mental Health Ministry for Churches: A Handbook for Getting Started or to Supplement Current Programs
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Overview
Mental Health Initiatives (MHI), promotes the dignity, value, and inherent worth of people who live with mental illness. To advocate through educational means, as well as provide practical, psychological, and social support for the mentally ill, the most neglected and marginalized members of society. This handbook describes how to start church ministry in service of those who suffer with mental afflictions and their families. Another branch of ministry described within is Minds Matter, which puts on events to spread awareness of helpful resources in the surrounding area.
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- Advocates for the dignity and inherent worth of individuals living with mental illness.
- Provides a practical framework for establishing church ministries.
- Describes strategies for hosting community awareness events that connect marginalized individuals.
Mental health is a much-neglected core concern of the Christian gospel. This book provides a grounded, practical, and multifaceted response to mental health challenges, based on personal experience of living with mental illness, and drawing on lessons learned in a project successfully sustained in one church and community over many years.
——Christopher C. H. Cook, Emeritus Professor, Durham University