Health Ministry

Health Ministry is dedicated to living out the healing ministry of Jesus Christ.
Recognizing that wholeness comes from a combination of spiritual, physical, emotional and relational health, the health ministry of Atonement holds the spiritual dimension central to its practice. The healing ministry of the church focuses on the whole person to emphasize wellness, disease prevention and health promotion.

Goals of health ministry include:
•      Health education to promote healthy lifestyles and to help parishioners understand relationships between lifestyle, faith and well-being.
•      Personal health counseling to help people sort out health problems and make appropriate plans for handling them.
•      Communicating and referring agent for parishioners to appropriate community health agencies.
•      Organization of small groups including support groups to promote Atonement Lutheran Church as a community of caring.

The pastors and health ministry staff work as a team to provide care to the parishioners. Care is provided by visiting in homes, hospitals and long term care centers. Visiting is also done in the church and via the telephone and correspondence.

Jami Dean, Jennifer DeJong, Connie Hoffman, Polly Kloster, Michelle Richardson, Kristen Schultz, Linda Scott, Denise Thiner, and Barb Hanson serve as health ministry staff of Atonement Lutheran Church. Congregational health professionals and lay individuals promote “whole person health” and provide emotional and spiritual support for the members of the congregation and surrounding community.

Please stop by the Health Ministry Office on Sunday mornings. We can take your blood pressure, discuss your health concerns, pray with you and lend a listening ear. Let us know what you would like to see offered by Health Ministry.
 
We care about you and what you are experiencing. Please let us know how we can help. We want to help you integrate your faith and health, so that you may live as Jesus wanted you to. “I came that they may have life and have it abundantly,” John 10:10

Please contact Health Ministry by calling 237-9651 or e-mail bhanson@atonementfargo.org.