Dr Scott Morris started the Church Health Center over 20 years ago in Memphis and since doing so has ministered to tens of thousands.  They currently serve over 55,000 unisured ... a little long, but they do so much for so many, it is hard to shorten the story. If you don’t know about the Church Health Center, find out more here.  And if you ever get the chance to meet Dr. Morris ...

... the focus of church members becomes how the facilities and money can meet their preferences, church health is clearly on the wane. 4. Corporate prayer is minimized. If the ... be saved if they move their focus off of themselves and onto Jesus and reaching people outside the church. I If it was easy to turnaround churches, then everybody would be doing it. Obviously it's not easy. It will take ...

... , where super-churches with highly talented leadersbleed off attenders from the smaller churches. The church has imbibed theconsumerist spirit of this age, which assumes that big is beautiful and greedis good. 'Church growth' becomes the dominant aim, rather than 'church health'. I'm not sure where this comes from.  Possibly from this book.

BREAKING NEWS: USCCB BACKS PELOSI HEALTH CARE BILL. full story in the link: The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops ... a letter to individual members. "Most importantly, it will ensure that no government funds will be used for abortion or health plans which include abortion." The Bishops' conclude: "For the Catholic Church, health care is a basic human right."

... in biblical Greek). When the Church demands that abortion be minimized, She is speaking. When the Church demands that health care be considered as a right and not a privilege, She is speaking. She is also speaking when there are objections within the Church to how women and gays are treated. She speaks when the faithful protest when the hierarchy hitches its ...

... care” is another question: how did the early Church traditionally approach health care? (Scripturally, some important ... Crusaders also founded healthcare orders, providing health care to all, Christian and Muslim alike. The Order ... medicine did work better (it never does), it would do no good for us to gain all the bodily health in the world yet become mortally and spiritually sick in the process ...

The Vatican today denied that Pope Benedict XVI had "health problems" after it emerged that he is to hold the traditional Christmas Eve Midnight Mass two hours early. ... had been a desert, would produce its fruits for us." The Pope added however that "in the Church there is always a struggle taking place between the desert and the garden, between the sin that parches the ...

... beliefs (and apparently they are- we already have the Catholic Church mounting what are, effectively, lobbying efforts to keep abortion funding out of the health care reform bill), ... so I'm guessing that this is actually even a somewhat divisive issue within the Catholic church. I'm not very impressed by what I've been seeing lately from them, though (wasn't it just last week when I ...

... tens of thousands of people the church helps with adoption, homelessness and health care. Under the bill, headed ... pathetic. D.C.’s stance is basically that the Catholic Church should abandon its principles if it wants to keep working with the city, because this is going to pass ... residents who rely on Catholic Charities for shelters, health care, and food programs. The Archdiosese is making ...

... asking pro-choice Patrick Kennedy to refrain from the sacrament of communion. In all of their indignation over a church being involved in politics, they must have forgotten about the recent past when President Obama asked ... marriage, Rob Boston, spokesman for the Americans United for the Separation of Church and State, said the health-care debate represents a different dynamic. "In recent ...

... Bishops are not to pleased with Obbummer's Health Plan. Is the Church Militant Back? By Patrick J. ... reaffirmed the doctrine that Christ's covenant with his church canceled out and supersedes the Old Testament covenant with the Jews. ... viciousness, the attacks went on for weeks. Having turned the other cheek, the church got it smacked. In his May address to the National Catholic Prayer ...

... receiving the Catholic sacrament. That request is suddenly in the spotlight as the Church gets more involved in the health care debate, particularly regarding the issue of abortion. Kennedy - ... but the church influencing its members. These lawmakers are free to leave the church any time they want, and I'm a little stumped as to why they would wish to be members of an organization whose core ...

... treating her clients' ailments the best way she knows how: She prays. This is health care in the world of Christian Science, where the sick ... battling to insert into the health-care legislation being hammered out in Congress. Leaders of the Church of Christ, Scientist, ... , R-Utah, who said the provision would "ensure that health-care reform law does not discriminate against any religion.& ...

... a check to cover Bob's health insurance because Gary is a Church employee is such a profound violation of ... money used for abortion services was that the federal subsidies for health insurance and the individuals' contributions would be segregated, ... separate pot to be used only for the authorized purposes, and the rest of the Church's activities are funded from its own sources. I assume ...

... bishops seemed to be elevating abortion over every other issue, including the health care needs of the poor. "In their quest to push ... issue of abortion," she says, "they failed in the church's mission. They really act like a bunch of lawyers ... general agreement that abortion is almost always evil and sinful, the church has had difficulty in defining the nature of that evil. Members ...