Healing Ministry

We believe that healing is about wholeness of our physical, emotional, mental and spiritual state, about our wholeness as individuals and as a community. The laying on of hands, by both ordained clergy and lay people, is offered as part of our 10am Parish Communion service every other month. In the intervening month there is a more informal evening healing service at 6pm. This is valued by many who come forward for the laying on of hands, and also those who join us in prayer. The development of the Christian Healing Ministry has been an important and significant part of our life together at the Church of the Good Shepherd since 2002. We felt that God was calling us as a church to his ministry of healing and reconciliation. Through prayer, reflection and training it gradually became clear that the time was right. It was considered important to introduce the healing ministry to the congregation with sensitivity and care so that it could be absorbed without difficulty into our life together, and become part of a normal pattern of worship that involved the whole congregation.