Mental health ministry is not optional—it fulfills the law of Christ to love one another. The stories of David, Job, Jeremiah, Elijah. Hannah, Jonah and Jesus remind us that emotional pain has always been part of the human experience, but God’s compassion is greater than our despair.
When the church becomes a place where hurting people can be known, accepted, and healed, it reflects the heart of Christ Himself.
Helpful practices for overcoming mental health stigma and misconceptions in the church include education and awareness, open dialogue, using respectful language, challenging discrimination and many more.
See photos of over 600 pastors and ministry leaders from 43 workshop groups in 14 countries throughout Mexico, Central America, South America and the Caribbean as well as 18 National Missionary Partners
In both church and community, mental health is often seen as a spiritual failure, a personal weakness, or something shameful and dangerous, rather than as a real health issue that can affect anyone and often needs both spiritual and professional… Read More ›
The Westminster standards teach that after death, believers’ souls go immediately to be with Christ in the highest heavens, where they are made perfect in holiness, while their bodies rest in the grave until the resurrection. For the wicked, the standards teach that their souls are cast into hell at death, while their bodies remain in the grave until the final judgment.
“The mediator, who was to reconcile God and humanity, had to be himself both God and human and in one person to make the works appropriate to each nature acceptable to God on our behalf and counted on by us as the works of the whole person.” (Westminster Larger Catechism Q.40)
Beth Sonnenberg recently taught a Timothy Two Project International workshop for a group of twenty Children’s Ministry Leaders from fourteen local local churches in Fortaleza, Brazil located in the northeastern coastal State of Ceará.
We Are His Workmanship 