Humanity Care: UPGs and SDGs 3

Wellbeing for All
.A New Paradigm to Guide and Goad Us

Wellbeing for All:
Global Mental Health and the Church-Mission Community.

This is a webinar was done on 29 November 2018 (we presented). It was organized by the Lausanne Movement’s Global Mental Health and Trauma Network. Click the title above to access the powerrpoint and notes (notes are under the slides). To watch the webinar, click  HERE--available 1 March 2019).

Example--Slide 2

This webinar focuses on Global Mental Health (GMH) and its relevance for the Church-Mission Community (CMC)—and vice versa. Foundational for our discussion is exploring how “we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God ordained beforehand so that we would walk in them.” Ephesians 2:10

             

We overview GMH and its influence as a new paradigm, a growing movement, and a core part of the world community’s major efforts to realize sustainable development and wellbeing for all. We then highlight 10 areas for GMH-CMC engagement.

GMH-CMC engagement is a major strategic and largely overlooked opportunity for “mental health as mission” (mhM). Many among the hundreds of million people currently suffering from mental, neurological, or substance use conditions reside in low-resource countries--including being part of people groups and/or in settings of conflict/calamity with limited or no access to both the Christian message and effective treatments.

What are we waiting for?!
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Notes for Slide 2:

Opening remarks by UN  Secretary-General António Guterres at the UN General Assembly’s High-level Meeting on Sustaining Peace,
24 April 2018

“We must recognize that in some fundamental ways, our world is going backwards. More countries are experiencing violent conflict than at any time in nearly three decades. Record numbers of civilians are being killed or injured by explosive weapons in urban areas. Record numbers of people are on the move, displaced by violence, war and persecution. We see horrific violations of human rights, and rising nationalism, racism and xenophobia. Inequalities are increasing; whole regions, countries and communities can find themselves isolated from progress and left behind by growth. Women and girls face discrimination of all kinds. These are all indications that we need greater unity and courage – to ease the fears of the people we serve; to set the world on track to a better future; and to lay the foundations of sustainable peace and development.”