Health as Wholeness Team, Mission, and Vision

Team Members

Joy Conti
Barbara Lewis
Dara Sterling
Tracy Merrick
Barbara Sekel
Rev. Dean Ziegler
Rev. Ed Bailey
Rev. Sandra Marsh-McClain

Sub-Team Members

Leanna Lake
Lois Slocum
Elena Swann
Rev. Beth Nelson
Rev. Emma Smith

Mental Health Sub-Team

Becky Pomeroy
Rev. Annette Gerber
Rev. Mark Hurst
Rev. Jim Fogg

Spiritual Health Sub-Team

Bonnie Harr 

MISSION

The Mission of the WPA UM Conference Wholistic Health Initiative is to provide leadership, connection and resources that will assist the people (clergy and laity) to live lives that are wholistically healthy and thereby enable them to more effectively fulfill the mission of the United Methodist Church “to make disciples of Jesus Christ for the transformation of the world.”

VISION

Our vision is to develop “communities of *wholistic wellness” throughout the Western Pennsylvania Conference – communities that support and nourish the development of the interrelated and dynamic wellness of body, mind and spirit.  Wholistic wellness helps then to promote and sustain that passionate spiritual connection with Christ.

* Wholistic wellness includes the spiritual, physical, psychological, mental, social/interpersonal and environmental aspects of wellness.