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Wellbeing among Older People with Ruth Rice
Later life is often accompanied by new physical, social, and emotional challenges, these changes along with changes in cognition can have a tremendous impact on a person’s wellbeing. Churches and christian communities can play a positive role in helping older people to enjoy purpose and good wellbeing in later life and at this online event we hope to inpsire and equip you to magnify your seniors ministry impact in this area.
Ruth Rice is the founder and CEO of Renew Wellbeing, which helps churches open spaces of welcome and inclusion for adults, in partnership with mental health teams to improve mental and emotional wellbeing. Ruth has a background in teaching and Baptist Church ministry and is passionate about seeing churches turn themselves and their great habits of welcome, care and prayer inside out to reduce isolation and increase wellbeing in every community. We cannot wait to learn from her!
You can join us at either 1:30pm or at 7:30pm on Thursday 13th November for this event.
Register here for FREE for either of the above sessions.
Ruth writes: I am Director of Renew Wellbeing and someone who has had to learn the hard way how to look after myself better. The habits I will share have come out of my own recovery from a break down and also from a decade of working with churches to see them set up wellbeing spaces for church and community.
I am passionate about prayer and the simplicity of just showing up, being present. I have learned so much from our hosts and regulars , many of whom are in later life and therefore have so much wisdom to share about wellbeing.
I will bring some thoughts on wellbeing in general and then outline the benefits of simple rhythms of life and prayer that can help individuals but also be easily shared in communities .
We all have “mental health” and the language of wellbeing is, I believe, the language of the gospel. In later life we may need different rhythms to help with our wellbeing than we did in earlier life and I look forward to exploring this with you.