To help congregation members better meet their nutritional needs,the parish nurse organized members to participate in activities that focused on fellowship while providing healthy meals to homebound members and serving "healthy heart" church suppers.Which of the following activities is being completed?

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Health ministries are those activities and programs in faith communities organized around health and healing to promote wholeness in health across the life span.These services include activities such as visiting the homebound,providing meals for families in crisis or when returning home after hospitalization,organizing prayer circles,serving "healthy heart" church suppers,and holding regular grief support groups.Holistic care is concerned with the relationship of body,mind,and spirit in a constantly changing envrionment.Providing a healthy meal does not address these multiple components.Partnerships may be among individuals,groups,and health care professionals within the congregation.It may involve partnerships to provide these meals; however,the focus is on the overall health ministry provided by this activity,not the partnerships which may be necessary to develop the program.Pastoral care practices invloves stresing the spiritual dimension of nursing,lending support duirng times of joy and sorrow,guiding the person through health and illness throughout life,and helping identify the spiritual strengths that assist in coping with particular events.These practices related to pastoral care are not provided through this meal.

To Help Congregation Members Better Meet Their Nutritional Needs,the Parish