Do you know people who suffer in silence because they don’t know how to identify and deal with a difficult personal issue such as an addiction, compulsive behaviour, mental disorder, or experience of abuse?
The Close to Home series is designed to help Christian caregivers invite others to journey toward wholeness and can be:
- used in counselling sessions, visits, and support groups
- given to a friend or relative
Available Titles
Dealing with Pornography
Dealing with Spouse Abuse
Dealing with Eating Disorders
Dealing with Alcoholism
Dealing with Depression
Dealing with Marital Discord
Dealing with Extreme Anxiety
Dealing with Bullying
Dealing with Child Abuse
Dealing with Drug Addiction
Dealing with Acquaintance Rape
Dealing with Gambling
Dealing with Overwhelming Debt
To learn more, read the following:
An integrated path toward healing
The booklets are neither a substitute for therapy nor the definitive word on the issues. They are bridges toward healing. They use the resources of sound therapy, Christian faith, the Bible, and the caring environment of the church.
Addressed to the one seeking help, each 12-page booklet includes:
- a story of someone who has moved toward healing
- basic information about the issue
- an explanation of how the Bible and the Christian story address the issue
- encouragement and next steps: who to talk to and what questions to ask
Ways to use the booklets:
- Offer them and discuss them in your pastoral care visits.
- Display them in the church foyer, counselling office, or even a restroom.
- Give them to loved ones of those who suffer, so they can be informed.
- Distribute them as conversation starters for adult education or support groups.
Close to Home is published by Faith & Life Resources (a division of Mennonite Publishing Network) in close cooperation with:
- ministry agencies and seminaries of the Mennonite Church USA, Mennonite Church Canada and the Canadian Conference of MB Churches
- institutions belonging to the Mennonite Health Services Alliance (MHSA) and MHSA’s mental health council
- therapists, pastors, teachers, and publishing staff from Mennonite and MB churches
Funding support comes from a variety of organizations and individuals, including the Canadian Conference of MB Churches.
To order by phone, please call Kindred Productions:
1-800-545-7322 (Canada and U.S.)
New topics coming soon:
- ADD/ADHD
- AIDS
- Bankruptcy
- Bipolar disease
- Bullying (for parents of bullied children)
- Child abuse (for adult survivors)
- Criminal record
- Date rape
- Dementia/Alzheimers
- Drug abuse
- Elder abuse
- Gambling
- Infertility
- Internet addiction
- Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome
- Schizophrenia
- Self-mutilation
- Sexual dysfunction
- Suicide
- Teenage pregnancy
- Unemployment
