EP. 31 Made To Minister - Salem Oregon: Ministering To A Culture With The Highest Rate of Depression, Anxiety, Suicide Attempts In The Country With The Least Amount Of Professional Help

Episode Notes: 

– Made to minister Regional Conference  W/Carl & Laura Chica from Salem Heights Church. 

– The Unfortunate Reality of Oregon’s mental illness epidemic among children and adolesence; they have the highest  rate of suiscide attempts, depression, and anxiety in the country and don’t have the help they need to meet the need with licensed professional counselors. 

– Most folks are having to wait several weeks to receive help, so they’ve bee working 

– Suicidality; 4 pepople above the national average 

– 1,800/kids per national helath professional vs. Oregon’s average 10k/kids per national health professional

– One of our children has walked through mental illness, so it has prepared us for what God had brought to us as the church. 

– Their church need began to be known among the community to where they were receiving a great response for real help that the state and state sponosored help wasn’t able to provide help to the extent they were able to provide. 

– Over n’ Over again, they noticed the church and the church commiunity was able to provide a sense of purpose and help, namely Christ, that people were able to experience real hope and life change. 

– Most of those who struggle with mental illness isolate themselves, but the biblical community of the church helps provide a loving accontablity. 

– Made To Minister is “made” to come along someone who needs help, ministering. The state isn’t able to accomplish that in of iteself. 

– One of the struggles is that, historically, the church has reduced mental illness/struggles is that it can be resolved with more reading of scripture, prayer, etc. So we’ve drawn attention to the physiological reality of the implications of mental illness. 

– The millenial generation has been labeled the therapy generation; they’re open to emotional struggles. They’re saying that 51% of them have addmitted to losing a job because of emotional dispositions and supposed mental illnesses. 

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Episode Resources 

• Made To Minister's - Website
• Journey - A Path To Biblical Change