Promoting Healing and Wholeness

 
Sacred Spaces
This is a helpful guide to creating a personal sacred space that enriches and supports your practice of regular worship within a community of faith. Learn how to select and create a sacred space, whether that space is a whole room, a quiet corner of a room, or your garden. 

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Paths to Wholeness
How is your spiritual life? Do you sometimes find it hard to connect with God or let God connect with you? Would like to try some new things? Take a journey in spirituality and learn about the many different paths to God. Paths to Wholeness is a retreat experience that offers a holistic approach to spirituality. You will recognize your own spiritual paths as well as the spiritual paths of others. This retreat resource can be conducted over a period of several weeks and is ideal for a one-day retreat. 

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 Act Boldly for Health Bible study
This three-part Bible study supports Women of the ELCA's Raising Up Healthy Women and Girls initiative. Each approximately one-hour session is designed for group use but can also be used by an individual. 

Session One: Act Boldly with Balance
Session Two: Act Boldly in Crisis
Session Three: Act Boldly toward the Goal
Our Journey to Wellness
This resource is your starting point for participating in our health initiative, Raising Up Healthy Women and Girls. It is a guide to having healthy dialogue in your community about women's total health: physical, emotional, and spiritual. Use it with your women's group, as part of a cluster or conference event, or as part of a synodical convention. Try it with a confirmation class or with young adults. The program can be used over several sessions or as a one-day retreat.

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Listening to God: A Guide to Discernment
This resource was written for Women of the ELCA by Debra Farrington, a popular author and motivational speaker. It consists of six flexible hour-long sessions exploring what it means for an individual to discern God's hopes and desires for her life and what it means for a group to discern what their God-given gifts are for ministry. Ideal for a small group in either a retreat or workshop setting.

Available for purchase through Augsburg Fortress. Visit the Augsburg Fortress Web site to order, or call 800-328-4648.
Living from the Heart of God: A Journal for Life’s Stages
This journal for women of all ages offers reflections, devotions, and prayers on the many life stages and experiences of women, from first friends to marriage and family life, from buying a home to chronic illness. Each section also includes space for the reader to record her own thoughts, prayers, and experiences.

Available for purchase through Augsburg Fortress. Visit the Augsburg Fortress Web site to order, or call 800-328-4648.
 Called to a Global Perspective:
Passport to Your Heart
This resource helps women to see themselves as a part of a global community in which all can play leadership roles. For group use; 60-90 minutes. 

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Called to Deal with Difficult Issues:
A Challenging Ministry 
With this resource you'll learn a process for thinking theologically as we face difficult issues in our daily lives. For group use; 60-90 minutes. 

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Stand Up for Justice
This is a good first step in your journey toward tackling tough issues. Working for justice is not a quick and easy process but a long-term commitment involving both reflection and action. In this justice journey, your actions emerge after Bible study, prayer, reflection, listening, research, and careful planning. This resource can be used by individuals as well as by groups.

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Who? Me? Women of Faith Making a Difference
Individuals and groups can use this 8-step process for addressing justice issues that affect women, children, and families. Learn how to gather information from those with firsthand experience, welcome new partners in your work, identify issues, and develop action plans. This program can be conducted over 6 sessions of about one hour each.

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