Healing Services

Huffman Memorial United Methodist Church

Healing Services to begin February 18

The Healing Ministry group is pleased to announce the start of a series of new evening worship services in 2007. Every other month (in even-numbered months) there will be a Healing Service in the sanctuary, normally on the first Sunday of the month at 4:00 p.m. These services are open to all. The first will be Sunday, February 18, at 4:00 p.m.

Although there are several different formats that will be used at various times and seasons, a Healing Service is essentially a prayer service, and each will include music, scripture, Communion, the opportunity for anointing with oil and/or the laying on of hands, and both congregational prayer and the opportunity for individual, personal prayer with the pastor or another worship leader.

Scripture strongly affirms ministries of spiritual healing, which in recent years have received renewed emphasis in all Christian denominations. The root of the word healing in New Testament Greek, sozo, is the same as that of salvation and wholeness. Spiritual healing is God's work of offering persons balance, harmony, and wholeness of body, mind, spirit, and relationships through confession, forgiveness, and reconciliation. Through such healing, God works to bring about reconciliation between God and humanity, among individuals and communities, within each person, and between humanity and the rest of creation.

A Service of Healing is not necessarily a service of curing, but it provides an atmosphere in which healing can happen. The greatest healing of all is the reunion or reconciliation of a human being with God. When this happens, physical healing sometimes occurs, mental and emotional balance is often restored, spiritual health is enhanced, and relationships are healed. For the Christian the basic purpose of spiritual healing is to renew and strengthen one's relationship with the living Christ. Our brokenness, of whatever kind, is changed to wholeness.

Please join us on February 18, for this special Christian worship experience.