Coffee Cup Counseling

Starting a Mental Health Ministry in Your Church: Pastor Daryl Clark

March 03, 2023 Light University Season 1 Episode 6
Coffee Cup Counseling
Starting a Mental Health Ministry in Your Church: Pastor Daryl Clark
Show Notes

In Today's Episode Daryl Clark, Lead Pastor of State Street Community Church joins us to discuss how a mental health ministry changed his congregation from the inside out. 
Special thanks to our hosts:
Phil Smith - Director of Mental Health Coach
John Eklund LCSW - Founder of Recovery Alive!
Lori Sheppard - Coordinator of Mental Health Coach 

Having a mental health ministry is important in your church is essential. 1 in 4 people in the U.S. struggles with a mental illness and 70% of the people who seek out a counselor go to the church to ask for help before going seeking out a professional counselor. Most of these churches are not equipped to handle this. Why would the church send someone to a secular institution when they could offer the solution? Christians are Christ’s ambassadors. When we say the church can’t help, people think God can’t help. The Church is at the front lines of the mental health crisis.

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