Health Ministry  

Ministry Purpose:

Health ministry is an opportunity for faith-based organizations to strengthen an individual's mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual state to improve their health.  Find opportunities to volunteer their help to those who are in the hospital, or those who are home  bound or living in residential care centers.

A health ministry can promote healing and health as wholeness, as a mission of a faith community to its members and the community it serves. This takes a variety of people, paid and volunteer, laity and clergy, all committed to sharing the compassionate love and grace of Jesus Christ.

Ministry Scriptures: 

Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, ²⁰for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body. 1 Corinthians 6:19,20

Behold, I will bring to it health and healing, and I will heal them and reveal to them abundance of prosperity and security. Jeremiah 33:6

You shall serve the Lord your God, and he will bless your bread and your water, and I will take sickness away from among you. Exodus 23:25 

Ministry Duties: 

Inform the church about wellness and disease prevention. Healthy lifestyle choices are promoted through seminar and workshops, giving information in such areas as exercise, nutrition,  and handling stress.

      Through health screening, make early detection and treatment possible; and

 Provide appropriate resources and advocacy to individuals and community.

As we weep for the hurt and pain of each as we stand in amazement, silent, and dumb with grief; as we wonder if there is medicine in Gilead; as we wonder if there is a physician there; as we wonder if God is going to do something or if God will help, God will, for God is the ultimate Balm in Gilead. But, God also wants us to be a Balm, a healing salve. Developing a health ministry does not require vast sums of money. It only requires us to become the body of Christ. We must have the compassion of Christ, the heart of Christ, the soul of Christ, and most importantly, the love of Christ.