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RESOURCES - MENTAL HEALTH / MENTAL ILLNESS

Contact us if you would like further assistance in this area of ministry.

  • Minds Renewed Manual - beginning a support ministry for people affected by Mental Health challenges.

To order the Minds Renewed Manual click here. Materials are free of charge. A donation to the Training & Equipping Department would be greatly appreciated.

Recommended Reading:

Beyond Boundaries: Learning to Trust Again in Relationships by Dr. John Townsend and Dr. Henry Cloud.

Resurrecting the Person: Friendship and the Care of People with Mental Health Problems by John Swinton.

I Am Not Sick, I Don't Need Help! How to Help Someone with Mental Illness Accept Treatment by Xavier Amador.

Changes That Heal by Dr. Henry Cloud.

The following books are by Dr. Kay Jamison, a clinical psychologist who is one of the foremost experts on bipolar disorder. She has suffered from the disorder since early adulthood.

  • The Unquiet Mind (A memoir of her life's journey with bipolar illness.)

  • Touched With Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artist Temperament

  • Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide

  • Exuberance: The Passion for Life

  • Nothing Was the Same (A memoir of her loving second marriage and her grief after her husband’s death.)

The following books are by Amy Simpson. Amy is dedicated to helping others turn trials into resources. Growing up in a family affected by serious mental illness, living with Tourette’s syndrome, and navigating the transition from executive to entrepreneur, Amy has developed strong convictions that each person’s life has purpose and that points of crisis are opportunities for transformation.

  • Troubled Minds: Mental Illness and the Church’s Mission. In Troubled Minds, Amy Simpson, whose family knows the trauma and bewilderment of mental illness, reminds us that people with mental illness are our neighbors and our brothers and sisters in Christ. She shows us the path to loving them well and becoming a church that loves God with whole hearts and whole souls, with the strength we have and with minds that are whole as well as minds that are troubled.

  • Anxious: Choosing Faith in a World of Worry. Challenging the idolatrous underpinnings of worry, former Christianity Today Executive, Amy Simpson, encourages us to root our faith in who God is, not in our own willpower. We don’t often give much thought to why worry offends God; but indulging anxiety binds us to mere possibilities and blinds us to the truth. Correctly understanding the theology of worry is critical to true transformation. This is a book not just for people who worry. This is a call to the church to turn its eyes from the things of earth and fix its eyes on the Author and Completer of our faith.