Life Flows On
Pastoring Those Who Face Chronic Mental Illness
From the Extreme Situations pastoral care series.
Friday, October 27, 2006
This seminar is designed for pastors who provide pastoral care and support to people with chronic mental illness and to their family members. This daylong event will pay special attention to theological reflection on mental illness, appropriate pastoral responses, effects of mental illness on congregational dynamics and related resources.
Presenter:
Gayle Gerber Koontz, Ph.D., is professor of theology and ethics at AMBS. She joined the faculty in 1982 and served as dean from 1990 to 1995. She has served on the Mennonite Central Committee Peace Section Task Force on Women in Church and Society, on the Higher Education Council of the General Conference Mennonite Church and on the ethics committee for a long-term health care facility. She is a member of NAMI, National Alliance for the Mentally Ill.
Extreme Cases in the Congregation Series
This event is part of a series planned for pastors, exploring issues from the perspective of congregational dynamics. All pastors are invited and welcome to attend.
The next event in the series is Pastoring Children and Adult Children of Divorce, January 22, 2007. The presenter will be Elizabeth Marquardt, M.Div., M.A., author of Between Two Worlds: The Inner Lives of Children of Divorce.