Caring

Aging Me - Aging You - Exploring Issues
This video is intended to open the way for group discussions on specific issues of aging. It is not intended for one-time or continuous viewing. A companion video entitled "Aging Me...Aging You...The Journey of a Lifetime" is available. 45:42 minutes.

Aging Me...Aging You - The Journey of a Lifetime
This video offers a glimpse into the journey called "Aging", seen as an adventure that begins with birth and goes throughout life. Included up-side, down-side and suggests models for ministry with older persons. 32:42 minutes. Good basis for study group.

Church in the Basement
Invites viewers to take a glimpse of 12-Step support groups by listening to the life-stories of five individuals who are recovering from addictions. These stories are stories of pain and renewal-stories about spiritual journeys that have taken place in "the church in the basement".

Congregations Who Care: The Ministry of Health & Wholeness - Parish Nursing
This video tells how some congregations have utilized Parish Nurses in their health ministries. 23:41 minutes.

The Fall of Freddie the Leaf
Why do we have to die? Where do we go when we die? This strikingly beautiful allegory told by Leo Buscaglia addresses these questions in a way that will help children and adults appreciate the changes of nature and accept the season death. Color/16 minutes.

The Gift of Choice
This 25 minute video program is meant to explain what it means for choice. The perspective is Judeo-Christian and therefore moral questions are central.

Growing Through Grief: Personal Healing
This six part video training resource features scenes from the sessions of an actual grief group under Dr. Howard Clinebell's direction. 30 minutes each. Youth, adults.

HIV/AIDS: Stories of Mutual Ministry
This video shows how the church and individuals are responding with acts of kindness to those who are affected by this epidemic. 28 minutes.

A Hunger for Healing
12 programs on three videos. Each program 25 minutes. Hosted by Keith Miller, a respected counselor.

A Hunger for Healing takes an "inside" look at the 12 steps developed by Alcoholics Anonymous and other recovery programs. It shows how the principles used in these programs offer a classic model for Christian spiritual growth and can be used as a valuable tool for emotional and spiritual healing to all persons, even those free of evident addictions. Viewers will gain new insights into the stumbling blocks of their own lives as they hear the honest struggling and recovery of others.

Is There An Elephant in Your Sanctuary?
Videotape produces to help the church face the reality that it has a problem as big as an elephant which it never talks about - alcoholism and drug abuse. 26 minutes.

Minnie Remembers
A film that reminds us that we don't want to grow old, that we don't want to live in a world where we are not touched, not called by our names, not loved. 5 mins./color. All ages.

Portraits of Goodbye "Harriet"
Decisions are forcing Harriet to face the fact that she's now single. Facing her feelings honestly, but not without difficulty, Harriet is gradually carving out her new identity. 10 minutes/color. Youth and adult.

Presbyterian Homes - Places Like Home
Overview of Presbyterian Homes in the Presbytery of Lake Erie. 9 minutes.

A Season for Renewal: Moses and His Four Commandments for Retirement Living
Video encourages planning now for retirement living and a time when full-care assistance may be needed. 21 minutes. Comes with Booklet: Where to Turn for Help for Older Persons.

Suffering is Not for Nothing
This video series by Elisabeth Elliot contains six 30 minute messages on two tapes.

A Time for Caring
A pastoral approach to persons with AIDS. 37 minutes. Study guide is designed for use in four sessions lasting one and a quarter hours each.

Youth Suicide: Let's Talk About It
Older youth resource - a four session study.