How We Serve: HEALTH AND WHOLENESS PROJECT

Introducing... ICS' new Health and Wholeness Project...bringing together faith and whole-person health.

How does your congregation respond to members' needs for spiritual support, for information on physical or mental health issues, for dealing with loss, for preventing illness?

Health and wholeness programs centered in churches, synagogues, mosques, and temples are a rich opportunity to connect faith and health. Congregations can be centers of healing, enhancing "whole-person health" for their members and larger communities. What better places than our houses of prayer and worship to integrate the spiritual, physical, emotional, and relational aspects of personal and communal health?

Through our Health and Wholeness Project, ICS aims to increase the number of people receiving needed health advocacy and education by helping congregations start or expand their own health programs. A congregational health program may include everyone who is compelled to work for the promotion of health and wellness. It's a program developed by a health committee or team, with input from congregation members. Such a program is tailored to the needs of each congregation and helps people navigate the health care system, learn to better take responsibility for their own health and the health of their communities, and to integrate their faith and health.

ICS has a strong record of partnering with faith communities and an award-winning Health Advocacy service. Using these strengths, ICS is available to provide guidance, information, and support to congregations building their health and wholeness programs.

To find out more, read a summary of this new project or contact Karen MacDonald at 297-6049 or kmacdonald@icstucson.org. For links to additional resources, please click here.