Awakening Faith Communities to Address Addiction
To lift the fallen, restore the broken, heal the hurting…
Educating Clergy, Faith Communities & Caregivers about Addiction
Offering the hope of recovery to the addicted and to those who love them.
Offering the hope of recovery to the addicted and to those who love them.
Addiction & FaithFaith communities are in an ideal position to make a significant difference for healing addiction and yet they do very little to address it. For too long religions of every kind have avoided this issue and it’s time they stepped up. We want to teach them what they can do.
In 2018, we brought together the best scientists and theologians on the topic of addiction to teach faith leaders more about addiction and how faith communities can better respond. We hoped to get at least 50 local leaders to attend. We were pleasantly surprised when we had to cut off the registration at 200. There were leaders from 22 states and 7 denominations (including a pastor from Canada) who came. We repeated the conference in 2019 and had an even larger attendance, this time with 34 states represented (and another pastor from Canada) and 12 denominations. From this great interest the Center of Addiction & Faith is born, forming a much needed resource for faith communities. The Center will feature an annual conference, but also a robust website to provide wisdom, education, guidance, tools and best practices. We believe the time is now. We can imagine a whole army of caregivers out there waiting to be shown what to do. The Center of Addiction & Faith is called to lead this movement. The new website for the Center of Addiction & Faith is: www.addictionandfaith.com Information for the next Addiction & Faith Conference is at: www.addictionandfaithconference.com Addiction is the number one preventable killer of people of every age, race and nation. We will never stop it, but we can reduce it and mitigate the terrible impacts on families and communities. I hope to see you at the next conference. We believe we can save lives. |
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Follow the link below to the new Center of Addiction & Faith
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Follow the link below to learn about the next Addiction & Faith Conference, October. 2021
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Please help us teach faith communities how to better serve those suffering from addiction, those seeking recovering, and those in recovery. Many lives are being lost and destroyed by addiction of every kind and there is much we could be doing to help mitigate the damage. Your tax deductible gift will help make that happen.
The donate link above will take you to the Addiction & Faith Conference page where you can make a tax deductible donation with a credit card through PayPal.
Or, send a check to:
The Center of Addiction & Faith
P.O. Box 233
St. Bonifacius, MN 55375
The donate link above will take you to the Addiction & Faith Conference page where you can make a tax deductible donation with a credit card through PayPal.
Or, send a check to:
The Center of Addiction & Faith
P.O. Box 233
St. Bonifacius, MN 55375
Volunteer
Do you have time, skills, & passion for this vision & work that you feel called to share? We can use all the help we can get: promoting the ministry, speaking, writing, social media, technical skills. What have you got to share? Let us know and we will get you plugged in.
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