Pastoral Care
Bread of Healing Free Clinic North
Food Pantry
The Care Board
Living Waters
Celebrate Recovery
Marriage Preparation Class
Counseling Resources
Bread of Healing Free Clinic North
Bread of Healing Clinics provide cost-free primary medical
care to uninsured adults (16 years +) in the Milwaukee Metro
area. We are committed to achieving health, not necessarily
eliminating sickness.
Our definition of “health” also involves the
spiritual health of the patient, including salvation in Jesus
Christ. The all-volunteer team approach provides the care
of physician, nurse, educator, pharmacist, respiratory therapist,
along with medications and lab services.
We are open the 3rd Saturday morning (9 a.m. to noon) of
each month and the 2nd Monday evening (4 to 7 p.m.), and the
Agape center is open each Wednesday from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m.
For more information, please call the main office (414-977-0001)
and ask for Rick or Erin, or contact Eastbrook Church (414-228-5220
x 107.)
Food Pantry
Eastbrook’s Food Pantry Ministry exists to serve both
the church and the surrounding community by distributing free
food to those who need it. This food is donated by church
members, bought with money donated to the church and designated
for the Food Pantry, and also obtained through a partnership
that has been established with the Hunger Task Force www.hungertaskforce.org
of Milwaukee.
Distributions of food are made every Saturday from 9:30
a.m. to 11:00 a.m. from the ARC building. Those wishing to
volunteer to serve in this ministry should have a cheerful
spirit and a strong back. Heavy bags of groceries need to
be carried up a flight of stairs from the storage room in
the basement of the ARC building. This ministry is great way
to provide both a practical help to people, as well as a way
to have contacts with people from outside the church which
can lead to opportunities to have a spiritual impact on their
lives
The Care Board
The Care Board serves the congregation and members of the
community by making available a bulletin board that shares
information on jobs, housing, automobiles, and other needs.
The board is located in the lobby and the forms for listing
notices are located at the nearby Information Desk. Forms
may be filled out and left at this desk, to be posted by office
staff. No commercial advertising or sales aree allowed. Needs
only.
Living Waters
Living Waters is a relational and sexual wholeness program
to which people come for inner healing of broken relationships.
Learning to forgive those who have hurt us, to forgive ourselves
and to repent of sins that have overcome us is covered in
this ministry.
This ministry provides a safe environment to work out areas
of brokenness that we often fear letting be known. Forgiveness,
repentance, prayer and the Cross are central. Men and women
learn about God’s design for complimentarity in whole
relationships. Small groups give opportunity for healing prayer
to take place in the participant’s lives. This ministry
has helped countless individuals regain renewed relationships
and a new sense of joy and freedom.
Celebrate Recovery
Celebrate Recovery is a Christ-centered recovery program
designed to help those struggling with hurts, hang-ups and
habits. It is a safe place that incorporates a 12-step recovery
process, in addition to 8 recovery principles that are based
on the Beatitudes.
When participants work this program, they are able to break
free from destructive patterns that have hindered a strong
relationship with God and others.
Celebrate Recovery is for anyone with a hurt, hang-up or
habit such as those dealing with drug and alcohol addiction,
anger issues, codependency issues, sexual addiction, eating
disorders, gambling and a whole host of other issues. Meetings
are held every Thursday from 7 to 9 p.m. in room E224 at Eastbrook
Church.
Marriage Preparation Class
Any couple desiring to be married by a pastor at Eastbrook
Church is required to go through our 10-week marriage preparation
class. Classes are offered every spring and fall and use Dennis
Rainey’s “Preparing For Marriage” as the
main resource. Time is given to both large group teaching
and couple-to-couple mentoring as we work through the book.
Any couple that is engaged or dating seriously is encouraged
to go through the class.
Counseling Resources
Eastbrook Church offer three different options for a variety
of counseling needs. Pastoral counseling is available on the
Eastbrook campus to help with marriage concerns, depression,
grief and/or other life matters. We also have a team of lay
counselors (Shepherds Ministry) that have received training
and have shown gifting and competency in helping others. Finally,
we have a referral list of trusted professional Christian
counselors who work in the Milwaukee area.
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