On behalf of our Board, ministry team and the MHATC2024 Program Committee, I would like to invite leaders with impactful or innovative ideas and strategies for churches seeking to minister with individuals and families impacted by mental health concerns to conserve applying to be part of our speaking team for Mental Health and the Church, Key Ministry’s first national conference focused specifically upon mental health ministry, to be held at Bay Presbyterian Church in suburban Cleveland on September 26-27, 2024.
Loving Our Neighbors With Disability
What can we do to love our neighbors with disabilities? Offer them our presence. Spend time with them. I’m convinced far fewer people with chronic illnesses would be seeking physician-assisted suicide if they didn’t have to suffer alone. Get to know the neighbors whose child is picked up by a van on school days. Provide dinner to the person in your office caring for an elderly parent or a child with a disability. Invite them to join you at church for a worship service or some other activity.
The Youth Mental Health Crisis: A Vision for the North American Church’s Response
I’d like us to focus on the most important manifestation of the youth mental health crisis that the church needs to address, share a number of ideas for how local churches and individual Christians might care for and support the kids and families affected and consider what leaders within the institutions and ministries of the “Big C” church might do to promote the movement beginning to sprout to address the needs of kids and adults in our culture struggling with mental health issues.
Mental Health, Medicine and Ministry - September 5, 2023
Mental Health, Medicine and Ministry - August 27, 2023
Mental Health, Medicine and Ministry is a pilot of a new product from Key Ministry. Our intent is to create a home for curated news and commentary on topics related to mental health, medicine and ministry for faithful Christians — especially those serving in positions of leadership in the church — from the physician and child psychiatrist who founded Key Ministry.
Courage in Pursuit of Our Callings
Is Christianity Today Missing the Real Crisis of Mental Health and Church Attendance?
Encouraging Signs Regarding Mental Health and the Church
Twenty ways our Key Ministry team made a difference in 2020
Our ministry plans for 2020 went out the window when church doors closed across the country as we learned the meaning of social distancing. But in reviewing the accomplishments of the team in 2020, it’s hard not to argue that Beth, Catherine, and the rest of the team had their most impactful year of ministry ever.