healing ministry
Spiritual restoration work
A healing ministry is a religious practice centered on restoring physical, emotional, or spiritual health through prayer, laying on of hands, anointing with oil, or other faith-based interventions.
Common in charismatic and Pentecostal Christianity, healing ministries may operate within churches or as independent organizations led by individuals claiming gifts of healing: The televangelist's healing ministry drew thousands to revival meetings.
- anointingCeremonial oil application
- grief supportAid for the bereaved
- blessingPrayer seeking divine favor
- prayerAddress to deity
- chaplaincyReligious guidance service
hospital visitation · bedside manner · house call · compassion · wounded healer · oil · bereavement support · laying on of hands · prayer chain · crisis intervention · spiritual direction · counseling · intercession · touch · miracles · divine intervention · comfort · pastoral care
- Catholic ChurchVatican, papacy, cardinals, popes, papal
- Catholic ministrycatechists, evangelization, religious education, RCIA, apostolate
- Christian ministrypreaching, evangelists, missionaries, discipleship, pastors
- Christian serviceservice, serving, serving others, deacons, deaconess
- church groupssmall group, small groups, congregations, cell group, parishes
- church ministrychurch outreach, youth mentoring, small groups, prayer meeting, discipleship
healing ministryharm
Injury or damage
destruction · affliction · wounding · killing · violence
healing ministrycurse
Invoked harm through words
black magic · spiritual attack · death curse · witchcraft · sorcery
healing ministryevidence-based medicine
Clinical care guided by research
medical science · clinical practice · biomedicine · clinical medicine · surgery