Episode 447 - Cultivating Cultures of Care in Churches with Laura Howe
How can churches become places of healing for people navigating trauma and mental health challenges? And how can those who care for others avoid compassion fatigue and burnout?
Laura Howe is a mental health clinician and community development strategist who equips churches to care well for their communities without burning out. Through her work with Hope Made Strong, she helps ministry leaders build sustainable care ministries, prevent burnout, and cultivate churches that become beacons of hope for people who are hurting.
In this episode, Davey sits down with Laura to talk about how churches can become healing spaces for those navigating trauma and mental health challenges, how to recognize and prevent compassion fatigue in ministry, and what it looks like to create a sustainable culture of care that brings hope to both caregivers and those they serve.
If you've ever felt the weight of caring for others, wrestled with ministry burnout, or wondered how your church can better support people in pain, this episode is for you.
“In ministry, what you do is caring for and discipling others, but we don’t realize the impact of that. A paradigm shift is that I am valuable in just me and I can rest and my value doesn’t come in what I do.”
-Laura Howe
Website: https://www.hopemadestrong.org/
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Church Mental Health Summit: https://www.hopemadestrong.org/a/2148266118/74PVvopL
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