Bringing together Christian health professionals and care workers to facilitate a health focus to pastoral care and promote whole person health care
Faith Community Care’s purpose is to:
- Stimulate Christian health professional and care workers to use their knowledge and skills, and their faith to effect whole person health
- Provide information that promotes whole health – personal, family and community
- Promote supportive relationships between Christian health professionals and care workers (individuals and organised groups)
- Excite churches about the capacity of adding health to pastoral care ministry to transform lives
To achieve these objectives we:
- promote a Christian worldview of the person as an integrated whole- body, mind, spirit
- emphasise the importance of relationships – with God, with others, with the creation and within one’s self
- stress the biblical mandate of the church is to preach, teach and heal. Adding health to pastoral care ministry focuses on all three, but emphasises health and healing activities
- recognise adding health to pastoral care ministry is a ‘body’ ministry of a church. It involves everyone in a Christian faith community because all bring unique gifts and strengths. Everyone can do something. All are needed all are gifted and all are valuable.
Faith Community Care is a service of the Australian Faith Community Nurses Association (AFCNA)
If you or your group are interested in finding out more about Faith Community Care please contact us: E afcna@outlook.com