Healing Ministry

About Healing Ministries

The anchor for the St. Luke's UMC Healing Ministry is the Pilgrimage Healing Process. This "hands-on healing" process was developed by Episcopal priest Tanya Beck and involves lying on a massage table as two trained healing partners go through a series of prayers and movements, opening themselves to God's healing power. Additional classes such as Reiki and the Alternative Healing Soup and Speaker Series round out the programming.

Pilgrimage Healing Process

Sessions are by appointment only, call 317.846.3404 x442, leave name/number. Our scheduler will contact you within 24 hours.

All those experiencing physical, emotional or spiritual pain or those wanting to more fully experience God's love and peace are invited to make an appointment. You may bring family members or friends with you to pray during the session.

In a Healing Partners session, the participants ask God for whatever mental, physical or spiritual healing the person is most needing. The healing touch used in these sessions can deliver stress relief and/or stress reduction, as well as relief from tension, fatigue, and many other symptoms associated with various conditions. These spiritual healing sessions re-energize and relax persons to enable their own natural healing resources to deal with illness or injury. Changes in attitude and the quality of life often follow and continue the work begun in these sessions.

Healing Partners provide prayers for healing at St. Luke's UMC, we also can visit clients in nursing homes, retirement homes, and hospices. These services are not a substitute for medical care, but this holistic healing ministry complements such care. The Healing Partners is a healing ministry of love. There is no charge for healing sessions. Donations are gratefully accepted. Your donation supports the work of St. Luke's and the Healing Partners.

Training in the Pilgrimage Healing Process

If you have felt called to bring the healing power of God's love to others, you may be interested in being trained in the Pilgrimage Healing Process (for description of the process see above.) This prayers for healing process is a hands-on healing developed by Tanya Beck, an Episcopal priest. Contact Betty Brandt to express interest.

Who should attend the training?

• Clergy
• Nurses and other medical personnel
• Mental Health Professionals
• Reiki practitioners
• Any person called to a holistic healing ministry

What you will learn:

• Origins of the Process
• The series of movements and prayers that make up the Process.
• Opportunity to both give and receive the Process.
• St. Luke's Healing Ministry experience
• The importance of working in teams
• The importance of self-care

St. Luke's Healing Partners Leadership Team:

• Betty Brandt, LCSW, LMFT
• Barbara Burke, Ed.D.
• Sandy Clark, Reiki Master Teacher
• Carol Ernst
• Sarah Nevin, Brennan Healing Science Practitioner
• Sally Pearson, Nurse Practitioner
• Linda Warder