Healing Congregations: Nurturing Love, Life, and Hope in a Hurting World
Mon, Oct 06
|Zoom Link Shared After Registration
Discover how faith communities can become healing-centered spaces of care. This interactive workshop introduces a powerful resource for pastors and lay leaders that explores the connection between adversity, faith, and healing.
Time & Location
Oct 06, 2025, 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Zoom Link Shared After Registration
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About the event
Healing Congregations: Nurturing Love, Life, and Hope in a Hurting World
Adversity, hurt, and human struggle are experiences that are part of all our lives. And so are love, life, and hope. When we know more about how these experiences link to our bodies, our communication patterns, and our responses to stress, we can start to act in more healthy, life-giving ways with each other, our families, community and society.
This workshop introduces a unique resource for pastors and lay leaders that explores how faith communities can be healing-centered places of care for their members and communities. Written collectively by theologians and faith leaders, the book integrates real stories of suffering, grace and healing. The book doesn’t provide easy answers, but invites the reader’s questions and yearnings into a conversation to discover their own wisdom and pathway to love, life and hope. A Discussion Guide that outlines ways to us…