Living Saviour Lutheran Church has established a ministry for Health and Wholeness that seeks to connect faith and health. Through a process of education about health and spiritual practices, the ministry seeks to integrate the whole person.
This wholeness flows from humanity to our good creation as well. The ministry seeks to integrate how we care for the earth and its inhabitants, plant, animal, and human, while encouraging those practices which focus on a healthy environment to promote a healthy humanity.
Active Exercise Opportunities
Please reach out to the instructor prior to your first class or with any questions.
Yoga 4 You with Lori: (https://Ready4Yoga.com/)
Mondays – 6:15pm
Tuesdays – 9:30am
Thursdays – 9:30am and 6:15pm
Saturdays – 10:00am
Chair Yoga with Debby (www.feelgoodyogagirl.com)
Thursdays – 11:00am
Upcoming Events
April 29 – The Scoop on Becoming a Senior Seminar – A speaker from Carolina Caring will explore normal aging and how it affects our bodies. It is important to know what to expect as we age so we can prepare for the future. We also need to know what symptoms may be abnormal.
Bring your lunch and your questions and join us in the fellowship hall on April 29 at 11:30am. Bring your friends! Everyone is welcome!
Focus for April is God’s gifts from nature.
Tip #1: Just a few moments of time in nature can perk up a tired brain. Experiments have shown that students looking out at a flowering green rooftop for 40 seconds during a test made significantly fewer mistakes than students who gazed at a cement rooftop. We are losing the environments that contribute to our flourishing. When people are disconnected from nature, they are not motivated to protect our natural world.
Jeremiah 17:18 He (the one who trusts in the Lord) will be like a tree planted by water. It sends its roots out towards a stream. It doesn’t fear when heat comes, and its foliage remains green. It will not worry in a year of drought or cease producing fruit.
Tip#2: Research has shown that spending even a little time with nature can serve as a balm for our busy brains. Green spaces near schools promote cognitive development in children. Exposure to natural environments has been shown to promote self-control behaviors and promote attention control.
John 7:38 The one who believes in Me as the Scripture has said, will have streams of living water flow from deep within him.
Tip#3: We have an innate drive to connect with nature. Spending time in nature lowers our stress level and replenishes one’s cognitive resources, restoring the ability to concentrate and pay attention. Researchers have even found that people with low social interaction reported high levels of well-being after interacting with nature.
Psalm 139:14 I praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Marvelous are your works, and I know this very well.
Tip#4: Evidence has shown that contact with nature increases happiness, subjective well-being, positive social interactions, and a sense of meaning and purpose in life, as well as decreases in mental distress. Children exposed to more green spaces near schools have been shown to have reduced risk of psychiatric disorders including depression, mood disorders, schizophrenia, eating disorders, and substance abuse.
Ezekiel 47:9 Every (kind of) living creature that swarms will live wherever the river flows, and there will be a huge number of fish because the water goes there. Since the water will become fresh, there will be life everywhere the river flows.