Healing Pathway Ministry Annual Report 2023
Gratitude to JBUC for "Opening Doors to God's Love" through welcoming the Healing Pathway Ministry to emerge in our community through workshops, distance healing, monthly practice group, monthly soaking prayer to congregants. We will celebrate our one year anniversary April 2024.
Workshops 2023:
Phase 1 - Intro to Healing Pathways - Offered at JBUC March 10-12, 2023 with 14 participants including 9 members from our church attending and 4 from other congregations and 1 from the Mainland. Our amazing Instructors were Jannice Foreman from Victoria and Jan Morrissey from the Mainland.
Phase 2 - Healing from the Heart - Offered at JBUC November 10-12, 2024 with 8 participants including 2 participants from our church and 6 from other congregations. Heart led instructors were
Jannice Foreman from Victoria and Sharon Yetman from the Mainland.
Future Workshops Scheduled for 2024:
Phase 2 - Where Two or More Gather - Will be offered April 12-14, 2024 - Full capacity at 15 registrations with 15 starting a waitlist. Registrants are coming from Knox United in Parksville, Highlands United in North Vancouver, Pacific Spirit United in Vancouver and Broadview United and JBUC. We are so fortunate to have as Instructors Sharon Moon and Howard Clark from First United Church in Ottawa and Jannice Foreman as a Trainee for this level.
We are looking to billet 2 practitioners from the Mainland.
Contact carolgarceau@yahoo.ca if you can help with billetting
Phase 1 - Intro to Healing Pathways - Scheduled for October 18-20, 2024
We have 15 interested participants from JBUC, Knox United, Parksville, Saltspring Island and Victoria.
Jannice Foreman will be the lead Instructor for this workshop.
Monthly Practice Group:
Based on our first workshop held in March 2023, interested participants gathered late March to discuss and create a monthly practice group following HP Code of Ethics and creating our own group boundaries. $300.00 seed money was given to our Ministry from JBUC which allowed us to purchase a massage table a big thanks goes to Sarah Hovey. Since then, we have had 3 massage tables generously donated to our Ministry from Broadview United, First Met United and Fairfield United. In total we now have 5 massage tables to use for our workshops and practice group. We are doing our best to find space to store the tables and bedding at the back of the sanctuary under the pews. We come together on the last Wednesday of the month 3:30-5:30pm with 5-8 Healing Pathway practitioners grounding and practicing the HP techniques on each other supporting each other's learning and growing confidence offering HP to each other.
Soaking Prayer:
Soaking Prayer is a HP technique that provides relaxation and grounding to a receiver by HP practitioner(s) placing their hands on the shoulders of the receiver. Since July 2023, we have been offering this HP technique to congregants after the church service in the sanctuary and/or in the balcony on the last Sunday of each month. There is usually 3-5 HP practitioners offering to 2-5 congregants and some regularly come to receive this offering on a monthly basis and look forward to it.
Distance Healing:
Distance Healing is offered when requested by a congregant or the minister for pastoral care.
1-2 HP Practitioners offer distance healing to the receiver communicating with them to support their intention of healing and being a conduit of healing energy. This practice has been well received by many congregants of all ages over this past year.
The Healing Pathway Ministry at James Bay United Church has been a beacon of light for many people wanting to learn and be in a Christian energy offering learning and growing community. Our ministry is enriching the community and other congregations here in Victoria and in other communities. We look forward to sharing more in the future with our congregation including leading a worship service April 14, 2024.
A huge thank you to Jannice Foreman who has been mentoring me each step of the way as well as God's loving guidance. We thank Victoria Healing Pathway who has provided bursary funds to support our workshops. It has been wonderful to have Cheryl Macpherson help coordinate and be a helper with myself for our Phase 2 workshops. Thank you to the Gordon and Vanya for communicating our many activities on a monthly basis in e-news and bulletin insert. We thank our interim minister Hilde Seal for reminding others about soaking prayer and the benefits.
Gratitude to our Bakers for each workshop: Aleksa Harkness, Colleen Nicol, Colleen Adair and Marg Lunam...our billetters for offering their homes for out of town registrants...members of JBUC that help us set up/tear down for our workshops as well as greet the participants....our congregation that provides the beautiful sanctuary space for learning, growing and practicing Healing Pathway energy techniques; for the many prayers that support our emerging healing ministry, we thank you.
In light and in service,
Carol Garceau