Health Ministry
. .LCMS HEALTH MINISTRIES: In our ministry, we recognize that the real message in Christ's healing miracles was in outcomes: Each healing was another announcement that the kingdom of Christ had come. Striving for health is the norm of the kingdom we entered at our baptism
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MISSION STATEMENT:
Justified by grace and living the new life of Christ within us, we, LCMS Health Ministries, purpose - in the freedon of this new life - to pursue the norm of personal and corporate wholeness in the life of the church.
Goal 1: To establish health in all aspects of the person as the Christian norm.
Goal 2: To establish health as the corporate norm in the Christian community.
Goal 3: To provide encouragement to the church - individuals and corporate entities - to live toward the norm of whole-person health, empowered by the indwelling Holy Spirit.
Goal 4: To effect collaboration between the church and community health resources in the pursuit of health.
Goal 5: To provide to the church a ministry of care and support for individuals and families in illness and death.