Ministry/Program Ideas
Dark Christmas/Advent Service
During a season of the year when people are expected to be joyous and happy, grief, loss, and depression are often greater than the joy expected during the holidays. This service helps to acknowledge sadness and concerns and offer them to God in a worship setting.
Backdoor Readings Volume IV
A fun and easy way to kick off your health ministry! Simply place print and use them in your church. Their name comes from the common use of placing them on the back of bathroom stall doors, so that people can get health information while not... um... otherwise preoccupied.Volume IV includes: Accident Prevention, Heart Attack!!!, Colorectal Cancer, Fitness, Atrial Fibrillation, Anxiety, Health Care System, Get Healthy America!, Fun Facts II, Sleep, Depression, and Christmas Tree Basics.
Spotlight on Shingles - Free Toolkit
The Spotlight on Shingles: Know What You Can Do toolkit can help you and your community to start learning about shingles now. The tools and information within this kit are designed to help you plan and implement outreach activities that raise greater awareness of shingles.
This toolkit is offered to any person or congregation interested in learning more about shingles. This program makes an excellent presentation for your congregation. Please contact us for your free toolkit!
Statement on Liability/Malpractice Insurance in Health Ministry
The Vestries and Bishop's Committees of several congregations, when considering health ministry, have raised the question, "What about liability?"
Based on experience with Episcopal congregations nationwide, there has never been a suit brought against a congregation because of health ministry. That is not to say it could never happen. Learn how to protect yourself and your congregation in this document.
Community of Hope
Community of Hope trains lay pastoral caregivers to provide a non-threatening, listening and compassionate presence to those in need. The mission of The Community of Hope is to create and sustain Christian communities of volunteer lay pastoral caregivers around the world. The Community of Hope is united in prayer, shaped by Benedictine spirituality and equipped for and serving in pastoral care ministries. 
