What is Healing Care?

This is a question we get all the time and the answer is multifaceted. Like a precious gemstone, the process of becoming a thing of beauty requires many stages and much work; some of which may be uncomfortable. However, the result is the work of the Master’s hand bringing us to the vision He sees of us.

But really, what does it look like? Healing Care is a ministry for those who are seeking the mental, emotional, and spiritual resiliency birthed by deep healing so they can better deal with today’s issues and challenges. It provides individuals with a secure place to process through and heal from deep wounds, false beliefs, damaged emotions, and dysfunctional behaviours, all in a safe confidential small group setting.

Each Christ-centred session is led by trained facilitators and revolves around a theme that gently leads participants to thoroughly identify and address key Biblical principles of healing. The first three sessions are foundational and teach about the underlying Structures of Healing: dysfunctional behaviours, emotional upheaval, false beliefs, and deep wounds.

The remaining sessions help to position group members to receive healing from Christ using hands-on experientials such as art, journaling, Lectio Divina, prayer, and Laments. Each session has three components: Teaching, an Experiential Activity, and a Spiritual Focus. Between sessions, helpful readings, scripture, reflection, and spiritual practices are clearly laid out so that each person can get the most out of this experience. All our Healing Care Groups are led by the facilitators and have six or less group members who are supported by intercessors; people whose job it is to be in constant prayer for the group.

How do I know if healing care is for me?

Everyone has a story and like many stories, it is not always an easy read. Over time life layers trauma, both small and big, along our path and that often affects the journey we choose. Healing Care is a program that will help you to understand the choices you have made and help you see what led to those choices. It can help you unpick the mess of tangled knots that seem to tie you up and make your journey so much harder. With understanding and the work of the Holy Spirit, freedom can build, resiliency form, and life regain hope.

Here is a list of struggles that some of our participants have shared - though it is not an exhaustive list:

• Anger, or hurt.

• Fear of Rejection

• Experiencing God's Love

• Knowing Your True Identity in Christ

• Loving Yourself and Loving Others

• Dysfunctional Behaviours or habits

• Negative Thinking

• Church hurt or other emotional wounds; present and past

Healing Care may be for you if you see yourself in any of these struggles.

Curious?

Click the link to watch a 10 minute video from Terry Wardle which will give you a brief overview of Healing Care. Dr. Wardle created the course and does the teaching videos which are used during the sessions.