Our Mission
The Holistic Health Ministry (HHM) mission is to raise awareness through mental health education and to provide support opportunities for healing holistically, restoring one’s body, mind and soul.
For All Journeys
Humans are created in the image of God called to love God with all dimensions of our being and through our relationships (Mark 12:30-31). Mental health issues are sometimes spoken of in whispers, masking the true impact to the whole person and facilitating stigma.
With our EC Community Groups and other team ministries, the Holistic Health Ministry is building a community of hope in Jesus Christ and connecting resources with people on a journey of healing whether temporary or long-term.
Companionship Volunteers and Men's Support Group (MSG)
The Good Samaritan (Luke 10:29 – 37): “And who is my neighbor?”…. Jesus said, “Go and do likewise.”
Companionship and the MSG are a special way of acting on our concern for another person on a journey of healing and faith. HHM's Companionship offers a safe relationship that serves as an extension to the KCPC EC, Soon/Community Groups and ministries. MSG provides bi-weekly opportunities for men's gathering and support.
Who?
Companionship: Volunteers can be anyone who is a member of the KCPC EC, desiring to partner with an individual’s healing process moving toward becoming well and whole. The volunteers will be provided with HHM’s basic engagement training/protocols for building companionship with the person and his/her care providers as needed.
MSG: A special bi-weekly meeting opportunity for men to gather and share each other's stories by men whose desire is to walk the faith journey together.
How? Companionship is the practice of listening to a person’s story lovingly without judgment, listening especially for the words of faith and hope. Companions may share the journey with each other side by side briefly or over a period of time. Companions may offer to be with the person at an appointment, provide a community resource, make hospital/home visitations as needed, or offer a healing prayer at various settings such as on Sunday before or after the EC worship service.
MSG uses the same practice as the Companionship to support each other within the group.
To serve as a Companionship Volunteer and/or to join the MSG, please email holistichealth@kcpc.org
Matt 18:12-14. “What do you think? If a man has a hundred sheep, and one of them has gone astray, does he not leave the ninety-nine on the mountains and go in search of the one that went astray?... So it is not the will of my Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish.”
Jesus cares for the one in distress. We respond to a call for recovery by Jesus for anyone in need of physical and/or inner healing. HHM is not counseling or curing. We affirm as a witness to healing by the power of the Holy Spirit, providing a practical healing support ministry.
We listen compassionately, without judgment, and provide appropriate support, in coordination with our community groups, ministries and EC pastors. When requested, we respond to the person and family on a journey of healing/recovery with our ministry of presence (bearing one another’s burdens), gatherings, home/hospital visitations, healing prayers and various opportunities to care for one another.
For more information, if interested in participating or supporting the HHM, please contact holistichealth@kcpc.org.
Hospital Visitation Request
Matt 25:38-40 “’And when did we see you sick or in prison and visit you?’… ‘Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me’.”
If requested, HHM will visit a EC member who has been admitted to the hospital. In addition, if requested by a E member, and the patient gives us permission, we will visit the EC family member if the patient is not a member of any other church. Our visit includes caring, sharing and praying with the patient.
If interested in joining HHM as a Hospital Visitation volunteer member, please contact HHM. The team will consist of two people per each team who will be available for hospital visits from time to time. The team members will be provided with basic training and standard protocols that will be followed during visitations.
Would like to talk to someone?
If you are seeking counseling related to issues including emotional, cognitive, or spiritual matters, we encourage you to sign up for our online counseling service.
Available in both Korean and English.
*If you need urgent help, please call or text the national hotline number 988. 988 offers 24/7 immediate support for suicidal, substance use, and/or mental health crisis.
Recommended Resources
Troubled Minds: Mental Illness and the Church’s Mission
By Amy Simpson. In Troubled Minds, Amy Simpson, whose family knows the trauma and bewilderment of mental illness, reminds us that people with mental illness are our neighbors and our brothers and sisters in Christ, and she shows us the path to loving them well and becoming a church that loves God with whole hearts and whole souls, with the strength we have and with minds that are whole as well as minds that are troubled.
Grace for the Afflicted: A Clinical and Biblical Perspective on Mental Illness
By Matthew S. Standford. Grace for the Afflicted is written to educate Christians about mental illness from both biblical and scientific perspectives. Stanford presents insights into our physical and spiritual nature and discusses the appropriate role of psychology and psychiatry in the life of the believer. Describing common mental disorders, Stanford probes what science says and what the Bible says about each illness.
Shadow Voices: Finding Hope in Mental Illness (Video)
An inside look at what it is like to live with a mental illness and how individuals and their families cope with the struggles while fighting for the positive.
Mental Health Training Opportunities
KCPC Counseling Centers
Building a community of hope
We are building a community of hope together, supporting and connecting with one another on a journey of healing whether temporary or long-term. We invite you to contact us for additional information whether you would like to help build the HHM community together, or need connection for yourself or someone to learn more about mental health training/resources.
For additional information, please contact HHM: holistichealth@kcpc.org