So, we need to get money together to get this aid church idea up
and working. This means salaries if and where needed, money for
training and also equipment when and where required. Now where will all
that come from?
Money for the idea: Well most of the money will be from
donations. It is a church and it is already set up to receive donations
in the first place. Therefore telling parishioners what the money will be
going for, they may be more inclined to donate more to help get this running.
Most of that money will initially go toward training for fields in both
mental and physical health that require the least amount of education time and
logistical support. So anti-bullying and physical health instructors
would be a few of the earliest ones to be set up and working first. In
the meantime the Church can play host to AA and yoga instructors and similar to
fill in the gap until the priests themselves can perform such duties.
Additionally, the churches should embrace growing their own food for
themselves and parishioners which even may include natural cures. These
can be sold to help support priest training and also stay in theme with
providing for the health of the churches proverbial flock. Other easy
things to sell are honey which can be made into wine and even ointments and
teas to help fight bacterial infections. Even providing fishing bait in
the form of worms and small fish farms can help as the worms aerate the soil of
the gardens (if they are growing any food) and the fish if they die can be used
as fertilizer (live ones obviously sold as bait so that people can feed
themselves by fishing if need be). Donations in the form of exercise and
medical equipment will also help greatly. Crutches and wheelchairs alone
can help as the church can use such hand me downs to be a medical supply store
of sorts to those who are struggling to buy such equipment for their loved
ones.
Ultimately however is for the church to
set up its own schools or programs to train priests and parishioners in these
fields. In this instance, the church will remove all the fluff from the
courses that you would expect at a college such as liberal arts requirements or
credits and focus on the skills exclusively needed to be a professional in the
fields of physical and mental health. The money generated here of course
will be further used to support the programs or this can be provided free
depending on what the church decides. Practical training will ensue once
the knowledge is obtained in the form of apprenticeships for students and
priests. Basically we usurp the entire college system to train the next
generation of Doctors (basic practitioners), nurse practitioners, nutritionists
and psychologists. It may even be able to teach these classes in the churches
themselves as seminars so as to eliminate the issue with large scale
universities or they can post seminars on-line to also provide the information.
Again, all these specialties and even classes will be broken up between
each church so that you get people using multiple churches depending on that
churches specialty(s) is. This avoids overcrowding and backlogs of
parishioners coming into the church for these services with the churches being
overwhelmed and at the same time prevents one church attempting to steal
another church's parishioners away (a major obstacle that keeps some churches
from working together). Ultimately the church's end up as a network to
provide free health services and potentially free practical education as well.
Conclusion: So what do you think? Will
this work? Well for certain, it will not work if the priests try to
convert people to the faith while performing their services with respect to
health care. So no trying to convert people at all. Besides that,
the church needs political will to implement such a change and it of course
will take time. But time is what they seem to have plenty of. As
such we got nothing to lose for trying to give the church (or mosque or temple)
another tool to help their parishioners.
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