Mission Statement

The Health Ministry's purpose is to provide, lead, guide and teach members of the Congregation, and the community at-large, the means to healthier lives through body, mind and spirit.

Vision

To provide the same Christ like care and healing of mind, body, and spirit to our surrounding communities through our Health Ministry lessons learned. These shall include those gifts that were given to us by God as done through prayer, personal health, and spiritual healing.

 “And He sent them to preach the kingdom of God and to heal the sick” Luke 9: 2

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To your good health,

Cammie

The ELCA Social Statement: Caring for Health: Our Shared Endeavor  is the model for defining the group’s purpose and direction at RLC.  The document was first written in 1991 but later amended and adopted by more than two-thirds majority vote as a social statement of the ELCA. 

The key positions of the document are as follows:

• We of the ELCA have an enduring commitment to work for and support health care for all people as a shared endeavor.
• Health is good for its own sake; it is also good for living abundantly in relationship with God and in loving service to our neighbor in the vocations to which God has called us.
• Our calling to be faithful stewards of our own health and to fulfill our obligations for the health of others comes from the God who heals and redeems the whole creation.
• Each of us has responsibility to be a good steward of our own health out of thankfulness for the gift of life and in order to serve God and the neighbor.
• A ministry of healing is integral to the life and mission of the Church.
• Health care as a shared endeavor entails a comprehensive and coherent set of services of good quality care throughout one’s life span.
• Health as a shared endeavor makes public health services, which focus on the population as a whole, the foundation for any health care system.
• Any person seeking health care ought to be treated and respected as a whole person, not merely as a site of disease or injury.
• We can always care, even when we cannot cure.
• Health care research first should address those medical interventions that are likely to improve substantially the overall health of the general population. We urge all people to advocate for access to basic health care for all and to participate vigorously and responsibly in the public discussion of how best to fulfill this obligation.
• The Gospel offers the world the hope of abundant and everlasting life that liberates us from idolatry of health and fear of death.

Copyright © September 1991 Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Produced by the Department for Studies, Division for Church in Society..