Mental Health & The Church

Faith & Fellowship Magazine
Written By Tim Mathiesen

September/October 2024

Mental Health & The Church

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Christ for Women’s Mental Health
Women's Ministries, Mental Health, 2024-05
Christ for Women’s Mental Health
Women's Ministries, Mental Health, 2024-05

In many instances my clients were not just the children who had come to my office for help, but also the parents who came with them, most often mothers. Mothers who were exhausted, anxious, depressed, lost, and breaking under pressure―struggling to know how to help themselves and their children.

Women's Ministries, Mental Health, 2024-05
Glimpse Project: Taiwan & Japan
2024-05, International Mission, News, Taiwan, Japan
Glimpse Project: Taiwan & Japan
2024-05, International Mission, News, Taiwan, Japan

The Glimpse Project is a resource that gives you the ability to peek into the life and ministry of our Lutheran Brethren missionaries. New Glimpse Projects of Taiwan and Japan were released this year, along with companion study guides for each series.

2024-05, International Mission, News, Taiwan, Japan
Elevate Youth Convention
Elevate Youth Convention, Youth and Young Adults, 2024-05, Unleash New Leaders, North American Mission
Elevate Youth Convention
Elevate Youth Convention, Youth and Young Adults, 2024-05, Unleash New Leaders, North American Mission

For five days we watched our young people take in God’s Word, praise his name together in worship, and join each other in prayer. They experienced fellowship through afternoon activities, games with emcees, climbing mountains, and more! Hundreds of students are growing in Christ!

Elevate Youth Convention, Youth and Young Adults, 2024-05, Unleash New Leaders, North American Mission
Kids, Trauma, and Ministry
Mental Health, Youth and Young Adults, Testimony, 2024-05
Kids, Trauma, and Ministry
Mental Health, Youth and Young Adults, Testimony, 2024-05

One of my biggest priorities is supporting students as they go through challenges in their lives. I am not a mental health expert, but I am here to tell my story and share advice coming out of my successes, as well as my failures.

Mental Health, Youth and Young Adults, Testimony, 2024-05
My Experience of Depression
Mental Health, 2024-05, Testimony
My Experience of Depression
Mental Health, 2024-05, Testimony

It was a Saturday. I was trying to finish a sermon but couldn’t quite get it done. Feelings of sadness didn’t help. Maybe going for a walk would. It didn’t. Despite the beautiful fall afternoon, the sad feelings only increased. They reached a point of almost overwhelming me with their power. I knew I had to do something.

Mental Health, 2024-05, Testimony
A Lutheran Perspective on Mental Health Issues
Mental Health, 2024-05, Theology
A Lutheran Perspective on Mental Health Issues
Mental Health, 2024-05, Theology

Mental health problems are difficult to talk about because we simply don’t do it much. As a result, we don’t always know what to think or what to say. Yet mental health problems are extremely common. In any given year, about one in five persons, regardless of age, will experience a mental illness.

Mental Health, 2024-05, Theology
Tim Mathiesen
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