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… have walked alongside me for many years. However, as a church, I feel that we often fail one another in our … across from a hospital and sit in a circle that was safe. Everyone in that space had been on a long journey with … for this conversation. Please visit our ministry partner, Safe Church , as they too have explored the topic of suicide …
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… As a church community, we have been learning how to live through … through the pandemic. Naming this reality and developing safe spaces to discuss the signs of stress and burn out are …
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… a critical point. We need to ask ourselves, how can the church support the need for more access to care? Does this … remain for government bodies to solve, or can we, the church, be a part of the solution? One of the single most … the need for access to mental health care is creating a safe place where people feel comfortable talking about mental …
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… indirectly affected by mental illness. Too many people in churches, though, keep quiet about their own or their loved … do to talk about mental health and mental illness in our churches in a way that people feel safe and loved and accepted and cared for? …
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… and important lesson here for us who love God and love the church. Fellow church members and many people in our communities live with a … and love because one or more of the members have felt safe disclosing their mental health challenges and fellow …
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… dysfunctional. The outside community—extended family, church, school, and friends—all had difficulty believing what … includes constant one-on-one attendance with her. We have safes in the house for keys, money, and valuables (those with …
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… Every year our church goes on a weekend retreat to Berea – a camp a few … school outreach program in which we open the door of our church's Student Center and invite our community’s middle … opioid pills – an alternative that he thought would be a ‘safe’ (albeit stronger) substitute due to the fact doctors …
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… gifting and the forces of good and evil, someone in the church. But who? Satan and his powers were surrounding me. I … I remembered a conversation I had with Trish, a lady from church. “Kristina, I had gotten an angel from one of my … this angel. It was supposed to watch over me and keep me safe, so I hung it on the wall. I felt an enormous evil …
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… died and rose again, his, John’s Richard’s, life was safe, hid with Christ, forever secure, with a God who is … a blessing to Neland. He regularly played his trumpet in church, and he was a very strong trumpeter. Also, for …
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… the one with the illness, find someone you trust and feel safe with, someone that can transform your experience of the … remembered her. There were no family, no friends, no church family present. How might the family and church family empowered one another to be an abiding …
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… It wasn’t a picnic on a bright sunny day. It was in a church basement. No body else was wearing sunglasses. I was … long term mental illness. With 15 people sitting in a church pew, 3 will experience some form of mental illness in … challenge of mental illness, it is the church. What other safe place is there for people to find encouragement, support …