News
Post from Sarah McGee
Ministries in Mental Illness
One of the ways a healthy community is fostered is through church involvement with, and sensitivity towards, behavioral health issues. The following article is a call to arms directed towards the UMC but relevant to all church communities:
“Behavioral health treatment… should recognize the importance of a non-stressful environment, good nutrition, and an accepting community. Treatment should also recognize the importance of medical, psychiatric, emotional and spiritual care, psychotherapy or professional pastoral psychotherapy- in regaining and maintaining health. Churches in every community are called to participate actively in expanding care…”
Read Ministries in Mental Illness