Articles for tag: Suicide Prevention

January 1, 2024

HOW A SERMON SERIES ON MENTAL HEALTH BROUGHT HEALING TO A CHURCH A perceived need among church leaders and church members led to a survey on mental health, which led to a dynamic and transformative sermon series. By Clayton Hentzel During the pandemic, I regularly participated in Zoom calls with pastors from across the country. One of those calls was with The Solomon Foundation. Early in the pandemic, Doug Crozier, the CEO of TSF, put counselor Dr. Wes Beavis on retainer. Dr. Beavis briefly shared some mental health tips on each weekly call. He provided everyone with a little help

September 10, 2023

Christian Standard

Care & Counseling Grief & Suffering

How to Help a Friend Grieving a Suicide Loss

According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, 48,183 Americans ended their lives by suicide in 2021, a figure that has increased by about 35 percent since 2000. . . . Here are seven ways to help those grieving a suicide death. . . .

May 1, 2022

Tom Ellsworth

Mission & Evangelism

‘How Will They Hear without a Chaplain?’

The Life-Changing Ministry of the Chaplaincy Endorsement Commission of Christian Churches and Churches of Christ

March 25, 2019

Christian Standard

Church Life

SPOTLIGHT: Real Life Church, Valencia, California

Multisite in a New Light By Justin Horey The multisite model has been gaining momentum for years among large churches and megachurches nationwide. But when Real Life Church in Valencia, California, embraced the multisite model of ministry, it did so differently than many other churches. Real Life launched two new campuses in 2018, both in nontraditional ways: one campus was created through a merger/acquisition, and one campus was designed to reach people online. For more than a decade, Real Life Church had a close relationship with Discovery Church in nearby Simi Valley, California. Both churches were planted by Shepherd of