Health and your community

The decisions we make regarding our health – and how we use our health resources – impacts others in our communities.

Caring for one another in our communities

How your health impacts others

Your health doesn’t just affect how you feel on any given day. If you’re sick, you are then unable to provide support to your family, participate in activities at your church, contribute time and energy to your favorite charity, or be a productive employee.

Transforming faith communities to improve our stewardship of health

Our congregations are a natural extension of helping us celebrate health as a gift from God and of living a balanced life. Together, we can offer each other wisdom to discern God’s call, loving accountability to follow through, forgiveness and healing for brokenness, and extend welcome and warmth to people the world may consider unhealthy. We may not control our health as much as we like, but we can control our attitude.

Learn more about your health and community

 

Consider taking a look at some of these resources:

• Read Healthy Bodies, Grateful Hearts, to see how congregations can address health.
• Visit the MMA Bookstore  for useful resources to help you and your small group, Sunday School class, or congregation learn more about being faithful stewards of God’s precious gift of health.
• Read The Continuum of Health Insurance in the United States: Why we’re all in this together (60KB .pdf file), to see how our choices on health care spending can directly impact others who are also tending to their health needs.