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Church, Know the Signs: Suicide Rates Typically Increase in Warmer Months
Every church desires to be a place of hope. Week after week, congregations gather to worship, pray, and encourage one another. Yet within nearly every congregation are people quietly carrying profound emotional pain. Some are wrestling with depression, despair, or thoughts of ending their lives.
Ministering to Mental Illness
Mental health is a rising concern in the United States, and pastors are on the front lines of ministering to people with all kinds of mental illness. Most likely you have counseled and cared for people with anxiety, depression, bipolarity, or even schizophrenia and paranoia. Like most pastors, I took a few counseling classes in seminary but I am not a clinically-trained or licensed counselor. My advice comes from the place of a pastor trying his best by the grace of God to minister to my church and community.