Congregational Health
How to Make Your Congregation a Health-Aware Community
by Kristen L Mauk, Cynthia Russell, Jack Birge

From the back cover:

Help Your Congregation Minister to Body and Soul

Most congregations make care of the afflicted an essential part of their missions. Congregational Health helps take you and your ministry much further. It provides you and your congregation with a comprehensive, humane guide to the practicalities of starting and maintaining a vital, vibrant health aware ministry. In this authoritative guide, written by health professionals for clergy of all faiths, you will find all of the information you need to make your church, synagogue, mosque or other house of worship a successful health ministry.

Congregational Health will tell you and your ministry:

• How to start health education programs
• How to organize discussion and support groups related to specific illnesses
• How to explore the connection between health and spirituality
• What you need to know about diseases like heart disease, cancer, respiratory diseases, HIV/AIDS
• How to minister to those with chronic illnesses
• What you need to know about the health needs of your congregation, from cradle to old age
• How to handle health emergencies in the congregational setting
• How to minister to those in health crisis
• How to help your congregants cope with death and loss

Congregational Health helps you better understand the health needs of your congregation and shows you how to create for them health programs of compassion, sensitivity, and professionalism.

About the Authors: Kristen L. Mauk, Ph.D., R.N., CRRN-A, APRN, BC teaches nursing at Valparaiso University in Indiana. Cynthia Russell, DNSc, RN, CS is Dean of the nursing department at Grand Canyon University, Phoenix, AZ. Jack Birge, M.D. is a primary care physician and Medical Director of Tanner Medical Center, Carrollton, GA

Congregational Health
How to Make Your Congregation a Health-Aware Community
by Kristen L Mauk, Cynthia Russell, Jack Birge

ISBN: 0967525888
Publisher: Hilton Publishing
Publication Date: 2003
Format: Trade Paperback, 296 pages
Book Type: New