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Use your personal faith to spread the health! Health Through Faith and Community is a unique study guide that encourages Christian congregations to enhance the well-being of individual church members as well as society as a whole. Presented as eight study sessions that can be used independently or combined for an in-depth learning process, this notebook-size guide includes unique insights and learning activities from an ecumenical Christian perspective about the physical, mental, social, and environmental aspects of health. This well-referenced book includes more than 50 illustrations, handouts, and figures, as well as numerous resources for prayer, activity, discussion, self-reflection, Bible study, and practical applications that will help connect personal faith with congregations and communities. The study sessions presented in Health Through Faith and Community are arranged in a series that can be easily adapted to adult Sunday school classes, workshops, retreats, and independent study. Sessions focus on individual themes and each builds on the previous one, blending together various learning approaches, including factual information, self-assessment and reflection exercises, small group discussion, and interaction exercises. The book also provides notes and guidelines for a study leader, handouts, overhead projection materials, suggested prayers, and Bible passages, materials for group discussions and exercises, Internet resources, and supplemental activities. Each study session presented in Health Through Faith and Community includes: an opening prayer to reinforce the group’s intention to learn together a review of working definitions, concepts, and content, all presented in layperson’s terms material from relevant Christian sources-scriptures, personal stories, images, literature, poetry, art introspective activities that can be done in-group settings or privately

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Author:   Edward R. Canda ,  Aaron Ketchell ,  Phillip Dybicz ,  Loretta Pyles
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781138456570

ISBN 10:   1138456578
Pages:   228
Publication Date:   13 July 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

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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