Resources

This list of resources represents the foundation of a basic health library. They should be made available to every person interested in starting a health ministry program or already involved in one.

Healing and Wholeness: The Churches' Role in Health
Christian Medical Commission/World Council of Churches, 1990
$1

This book contains a synthesis of the theological reflections, realities, stories, issues, and challenges of ten regional meetings around the world

Health and Welfare Ministries Resources
General Board of Global Ministries, 1995
Free

A catalogue of resources available from various sources focusing on the helping and healing ministries, with ordering information. Very useful tool for expanding the resources available to a congregatoin. Includes print and audiovisual resources related to ministries with HIV/AIDS, international health, and personswith physically and mentally challenging conditions

These resources may be ordered from

Health and Welfare Ministries, General Board of Global

Ministries,

The United Methodist Church

475 Riverside Drive, Room

350, New York, NY 10115

Phone 212-870-3869

Fax 212-749-2641

Email:congmin@gbgm-umc.org.

The Congregation as a Healing Community
#4571
General Board of Global Ministries
Edited by Charles Cole and Al Murdock, 1985
$2.50

This book helps churches understand what it means to be places of healing and wholeness. A variety of writers offer insights that can be used for church school or small group discussions

Guidelines for Leading Your Church:
Health and Welfare Ministries 1993-96
#2500
Abingdon Press
$1.50

This booklet is a guide for the local church's direct service health and welfare ministry. It is useful not only to the health and welfare representative but also to other individuals or groups interested in developing health and welfare ministries

#1681
Salud para Todos, Manual de programa - Spanish only
General Board of Global Ministries, 1989
$1

(see above for English version, Health for All)

These resources are available by stock # from

The Service Center

General Board of Global Ministries, The United

Methodist Church

7820 Reading Road

Caller No. 1800

Cincinnati, OH 45222-1800

Call toll-free (800) 305-9857

The Challenge of Faith & Health
Carter Center, 1994

Report of the National Conference of the Interfaith Health Project held at the Carter Center in January 1994

Health People 2000:
A Role for America's Religious Communities
Carter Center, 1990

A booklet that discusses the role churches can play in responding to the health needs of communities

Faith & Health
Carter Center
quarterly

A newsletter produced by Interfaith Health Project of the Carter Center which deals with issues related to congregational health ministries. Very useful in gaining insight into what the interfaith community is and can do in health ministries

These resources are available from

Interfaith Health Project

Carter Center

One Copenhill

Atlanta, GA 30307

Phone 404-420-5151

(Please call to confirm cost, if any, for material listed)