Health Through Faith and Community: A Study Resource for Christian Faith Communities to Promote Personal and Social Well-Being

ISBN-13: 9781138456570 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 228 str.

James W. Ellor

Opis

Encourages Christian congregations to enhance the well-being of individual church members as well as society as a whole. Presented as eight study sessions, this notebook-size guide includes insights and learning activities from an ecumenical Christian perspective about the physical, mental, social, and environmental aspects of health.

Spis treści

• Acknowledgments
  
• About the Authors
  
• About the Study Guide
  
• Study Guide Purpose and Objectives
  
• Design and Format
  
• Session 1. A Holistic Christian Vision of Health Through Faith and Community
  
• Activity 1: Setting Intention Through Welcome and Prayer
  
• Activity 2: Overview of the Study Guide
  
• Activity 3: Commitment to Mutual Respect and Dialogue
  
• Activity 4: Participants’ Views on Faith and Health
  
• Activity 5: Preliminary Definitions Regarding Faith and Health
  
• Summing Up
  
• Supplemental Activity A: Exploring Personal Definitions of Spirituality and Health
  
• Supplemental Activity B: The Healing Ministry of Jesus
  
• Supplemental Activity C: A Story of Health Through Faith
  
• Supplemental Activity D: Envisioning Your Ideal of Well-Being
  
• Session 2. Faith and Physical Health
  
• Activity 1: Setting Intention Through Welcome and Prayer
  
• Activity 2: Finding Meaning Through Suffering
  
• Activity 3: Prayerful Physical Activity
  
• Activity 4: The Connection Between Religious Participation and Physical Health
  
• Summing Up
  
• Supplemental Activity A: Prayer and Healing
  
• Supplemental Activity B: Ceremony and Healing
  
• Supplemental Activity C: Meaning Through Suffering
  
• Session 3. Faith and Mental Health
  
• Activity 1: Setting Intention Through Welcome and Prayer
  
• Activity 2: The Connection Between Religious Participation and Mental Health: Examining the Scientific Evidence
  
• Activity 3: Wisdom and the Book of Proverbs
  
• Activity 4: The Symbolism of the Cross and Recovery from Addictions and Mental Illness
  
• Summing Up
  
• Supplemental Activity A: Suffering, Faith, and Hope: The Example of Job
  
• Supplemental Activity B: Mental Health and the Serenity Prayer
  
• Supplemental Activity C: Congregational Supports for Coping with Severe Mental Illness
  
• Session 4. Faith and Spiritual Health
  
• Activity 1: Setting Intention Through Welcome and Prayer
  
• Activity 2: Stages of Faith Development
  
• Activity 3: Reasons for Prayer
  
• Activity 4: Spirituality Survey
  
• Summing Up
  
• Supplemental Activity A: Christian Devotion and Imitation of Christ
  
• Supplemental Activity B: Centering Prayer
  
• Session 5. Faith and the Well-Being of the Church Community
  
• Activity 1: Setting Intention Through Welcome and Prayer
  
• Activity 2: Interpersonal Relationships Within the Church
  
• Activity 3: Leadership
  
• Activity 4: Congregational Role Structures
  
• Summing Up
  
• Supplemental Activity A: Social Health in the Christian Community: Parish Nursing
  
• Supplemental Activity B: Koinonia: Building Community and Fellowship
  
• Session 6. Faith and the Well-Being of Society
  
• Activity 1: Setting Intention Through Welcome and Prayer
  
• Preface to Session 6 Activities 2, 3, and 4: Social Determinants of Health
  
• Activity 2: Everyday Activities That Lead to Societal Well-Being
  
• Activity 3: Faith-Based Community Organizing
  
• Activity 4: National Religious Organizations and Social Justice
  
• Summing Up
  
• Supplemental Activity A: Social Health and the Christian Community: An Example from Habitat for Humanity
  
• Supplemental Activity B: Biblical Verse Activity on Community Organizing
  
• Session 7. Faith and Global Well-Being
  
• Activity 1: Setting Intention Through Welcome and Prayer
  
• Activity 2: Faith and Moral Responsibility
  
• Activity 3: “For I was hungry and you gave me food…”: Christian Responses to Global Poverty and Hunger
  
• Activity 4: Environmental Stewardship: The Example of Noah
  
• Summing Up
  
• Supplemental Activity A: Faith and the

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Ellor, James W