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Catch the Spirit - Russian Healthcare

Type: VHS
Author:
( Europe , General , Health Care , Mission , Outreach )

Explores a unique partnership between St. Jude's Children's Hospital in Memphis, TN and Russian physicians from the premier Russian children's hospital outside Moscow.

Deciding About Life's End: UM Resource Book About Advance Directives

Type: BOOK
Author: Health and Welfare Ministries Program
( Death/Dying , Decision-Making , Disease/Cancer/etc. , General , Grief/Death , Group Study , Health Care , Suffering/Pain )

Presents guidance for individual reflection and for discussion of these issues by church groups: responsible personal choices about the kind of treatment we will accept and refuse at life's end.

Fight For Your Life, Part 1

Type: VHS
Author:
( Disease/Cancer/etc. , General , Healing , Health , Health Care , Inspiration , Pastoral Skills )

Made for cancer patients and their families. Anyone can benefit from its inspiring message about how people with a strong will to live can triumph over terminal illness. Teaches specific techniques. 2 tape series.

Fight For Your Life, Part 2

Type: VHS
Author:
( Disease/Cancer/etc. , General , Healing , Health , Health Care , Pastoral Care )

Made for cancer patients and their families. Anyone can benefit from its inspiring message about how people with a strong will to live can triumph over terminal illness. Features testimony from four survivors. 2 tape series.

First Do No Harm: Wrestling with the New Medicine's Life & Death Dilemmas

Type: BOOK
Author: Hilton, Bruce
( Abortion , Christian Life , Decision-Making , Ethics , Euthanasia , General , Health , Health Care , Science/Scientific , Technology , Values/Ethics )

Exploring bioethical controversies from a Christian perspective. Topics include: life support systems, genetic engineering, surrogate parenting, euthanasia, right to privacy, human guinea pigs, durable power of attorney, and the abortion pill.

Generation of Hope, A

Type: VHS
Author:
( Africa , AIDS/HIV , Children at Risk , General , Health Care , Mission , Social Justice )

In the ashes of the AIDS pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa, stand Africa's children - a generation watching its parents die, growing up without mothers and fathers. This documentary is the inspiring story of how Zimbabwe's children fight to keep their families together, and struggle to make a future for themselves. Your church can be a reason for hope by supporting the AIDS Orphans' Trust, Advance #982842-6.

Healing the Whole Person

Type: VHS
Author: GBGM
( General , Health , Health Care , Poverty )

Explains the origins and visions of Comprehensive Community-Based Health Care, which was begun in India in the 1980s to address basic health care for all in a population that largely cannot afford it.

Hyla Doc in Africa: 1950-1961

Type: BOOK
Author: Landstrom, Elsie H., Ed.
( Africa , Biography , General , Health Care , Mission )

Follow this American medical missionary during her years in Africa. She was boundlessly generous, curious, drawn to and appreciative of unfamiliar cultures. An interesting account of a missionary in the Liberian bush.

Let the Children Live

Type: VHS
Author:
( Children at Risk , Food , General , Health Care , Mission , Outreach , South America )

A segment of a Catch the Spirit program on Bolivia. Explores children's health care outreach in the high mountains reaches of Bolivia.

Living Choices: Health Care

Type: VHS
Author: UMCom
( Caring , Disease/Cancer/etc. , General , Health Care , Hospice , Ministry , Poverty )

From Catch the Spirit. Emphasizes the dificult and complex choices we face as Christians and responsible members of society. Crisis in our health care system: volunteer hospice worker, caregivers for chronically-ill loved ones support one another. A church and community ofganization fun a clinic. Churches, corporations, doctors, and an insurance company provide health insurance for children. Includes discussion guide.

Mental Health and Substance Abuse Treatment: Health Care Costs

Type: BOOK
Author: US Dept. of Health and Human Services
( General , Health Care , Mental Health )

Mental health and substance abuse treatment: Results from astudy integrating data froms tate mental health substance abuse and medicaid agencies.

Miracle of Taxila

Type: VHS
Author: Robinson, James F.
( General , Healing , Health Care , Hospital Ministry , Middle East , Mission )

Learn about the miracles that happen on a daily basis at the Christian Hospital of Taxila in northern Pakistan which is more than 99% Muslim. This hospital performs over 12,000 eye operations a day, with no operation costing more than $20. This hospital is largely self-sufficient. Follow the story of a cataract-blind man, several surgeons and see a day in this sight-giving hospital.

Possibilities for Over One Hundredfold More Spiritual Info.: Humble Approach to Theology & Science

Type: BOOK
Author: Templeton, Sir John
( General , Health Care , Mental Health , Science/Scientific , Spiritual Growth , Theology )

This book challenges the reader to apply the same energy that has been devoted to scientific inquiry to the pursuit of spiritual information. It suggests that we can approach an open dialogue between religion and science with an attitude of "How little we know, how eager to learn."

Rights of the Child, The

Type: VHS
Author: Attenborough, Sir Richard
( Abuse , Children at Risk , Education , General , Global , Health Care )

UNICEF. Explores the "Rights of the Child," a 1959 document recognizing that all children have the same set of basic rights. In 1989 the nations of the world signed an agreement giving these rights legal force.Right: 1. to survive (nutrition, immunization) 2. to be protected against abuse 3. right to be educatied and to develop normally

Should Religious People Support Gun Control? & Do People Have the Right to Medical Care?

Type: VHS
Author: Campolo and Brown
( Christian Life , Faith , General , Health Care , Social Justice )

Should Religious People Support Gun Control? Do People Have the Right to Medical Care?

Who Speaks for the Children?

Type: VHS
Author: Iowa Inter-Church Agency for Peace and Justice
( Abuse , Children , Children at Risk , General , Health Care , Poverty , Social Justice , Violence )

National Committee for Prevention of Children in Poverty held hearings in 5 regions of the US. Hear stories of poor children who cannot speak for themselves. Five themes: the system, child care, domestic violence, healthcare and homeless. Produced by the Iowa Inter-Church Agency for Peace and Justice.

Working Principles - For Assessing National Health Care Legislation

Type: VHS
Author: NCOC and IMPACT
( General , Government , Health Care , United States )

Narrated by Bishop Leontine Kelly of the United Methodist Church, this video introduces the Working Principles of the Interreligious Health Care Access Campaign. IHCAC is a vehicle for the religious voice to speak for the establishment of an affordable, national health care system that serves everyone in the United States. It consists of more than 70 faith-based groups working in cooperation with Interfaith IMPACT for Justice and Peace and the National Council of Churches of Christ in the USA.