SUPPORT MINISTRIES - “Why Do We Have Support Groups?”
Why do we have support groups in the church? First of all, we have them because the church has been called to a ministry of healing. Secondly, we have these groups because of the need – the need people have to make sense of their lives as they try to pick up from their losses and struggle to go on. Lastly, we have them because people who come together for support heal better. Extensive studies by the medical community have proven that attending a support group for 6 weeks to a year will double one’s chance of survival from serious illness. If the pharmaceutical companies come out with a drug with the same efficacy, it would be malpractice not to prescribe it. At the church, we have the unique opportunity to help people make their losses become gains. We are able to provide them with all the resources of the church including that of Jesus Christ, Himself. Therefore, as we fellow strugglers move together along the path to healing from our losses, we also move along the path toward God. We learn that it is in the company of friends that a heart finds a Home.
To register for any of these groups or classes or for more information, contact: Dr. Judith Hadley (937) 293-3151, XN 110 or judy@christumc.org
DID YOU KNOW? Christ Church offers a ministry of assurance phone calls for those living alone. Daily calls are made Monday through Friday. To arrange for phone calls, contact the church office at 293-3151
DID YOU KNOW that the church has a Loan Closet for your emergency or short-term needs for medical equipment and baby equipment?
New Christian Books-on-Tape
Can be checked-out in the church library!
, Becca Stevens—In this 6-week study, Becca Stevens discusses the issue of balance in your life between “service and worship, duty and devotion and doing and being.” To do this, she examines the actions of various women of the New Testament. Recorded by Janet Fleischauer
Rueben Job—This book is designed to help us in making careful, wise, and prayerful preparation for meeting life’s most important moments. Learn how to live each day to the fullest. Recorded by Margaret Barnhart
If you have hiring needs, please check the church website under “Support Ministries” or contact Judy Hadley