Pastor Ron Glusenkamp and his wife, Sue Ann Glusenkamp, wrote the three-session 2006 summer study on health, wholeness (or wellness), and abundant living. The study lifts up the Women of the ELCA's Raising Up Healthy Women and Girls initiative. Using the New Testament and the Wholeness Wheel as reference, the authors explore health assessment and balance, seeking and receiving healing, and striving for and achieving goals. They include helpful tips about health and wholeness, shaping attitudes, changing behaviors, and improving health.
Sue Ann is a parish nurse, and Ron is pastor of Bethany Lutheran Church in Cherry Hills Village, Colo. He formerly served as vice president for customer relations for the ELCA Board of Pensions where he was involved with their special programming on health and wellness.
Session 1: Act Boldly with Balance (download the file)
Session 2: Act Boldly in Crisis (download the file)
Session 3: Act Boldly toward the Goal (download the file)
|
|
The Wholeness Wheel
The Wholeness Wheel is a guide to balancing all aspects of health. The wheel was developed by the Inter–Lutheran Coordinating Committee on Ministerial Health and Wellness to help depict the interconnectedness of the individual aspects of wellness.You are the center of the wheel as a new creation through baptism and a member of the body of Christ. Spiritual health surrounds, contains and supports us through faith and our relationship with God. Within the wheel are the individual aspects of wellness — Physical, emotional, social/interpersonal, vocational and intellectual.To be whole means to keep these aspects in balance by intentionally nurturing and attending to each. If one area is neglected the whole will be out of balance.
Back to Lutheran Woman Today
|