Your Faith & Healthcare - Connected
It is an unchanging foundation, the connection of your faith infused into healthcare in all of its facets. Be educated, encouraged, and equipped as a Christian healthcare professional to glorify God by following Christ, serving with excellence and compassion, caring for all people, and advancing Biblical principles impacting healthcare within the Church and throughout the world. This is what we do. Together.
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Saline Process Witness Training
2026 Saline Process Training Events
Saline Process is a 10-hour course designed to equip healthcare professionals and students to be witnesses for Christ in their clinical settings. Many studies demonstrate the fact that a majority of patients want their healthcare professionals to consider their spiritual needs and desires. Yet many in healthcare are uncomfortable addressing their patients’ religious concerns. How can clinicians address both the physical and spiritual aspects of their patients?
Healthcare Marriages in Christ – Jackson, Mississippi
August 28-29, 2026
Healthcare Marriages In Christ presents a marriage renewal experience The Joy Prescription: Reclaiming Joy In God And Each Other.
2026 Great Commission Dental Conference
September 11-12, 2026
Join us in the Dallas Fort Worth TX area to hear firsthand how dental professionals are using their skills to share the love of Christ and open doors for the Gospel—both locally and around the world! This activity has been approved for AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™.
2026 WPDC Annual Conference
September 17-20, 2026
Our 2026 WPDC Annual Conference, this year entitled “Together, One Body in Christ,” is the premier event for the ministry of WPDC.
Why Faith and Healthcare Must Connect >>>
Your patients need you.
Why Faith Matters to the Healthcare Professional >>>
Your spiritual health matters.
88% of advanced cancer patients reported that religion and spirituality are personally important in their illness.
Yet 47% said their spiritual needs were minimally or not at all supported by a religious community — and 72% said they were minimally or not at all supported by the medical system.
A patient lying in a hospital bed silently wondering whether God has abandoned them is measurably more likely to die.
Because rarely is anyone in the building trained to notice the spiritual need of the patients, a spiritual emergency is being treated as an unmeasured variable.
Depression was strongly correlated with desire for hastened death among patients low in spiritual well-being.
Those same religiously-supported patients, when the medical team also provided spiritual support, the odds of hospice enrollment more than doubled, aggressive interventions dropped roughly 77%, and ICU deaths dropped 81%.
Advanced cancer patients with high positive religious coping were nearly three times more likely to receive intensive life-prolonging care in the last week of life
Those who coped having spiritual care also did less advance care planning — fewer DNR orders, living wills, and healthcare proxies — than patients who did not.
Socially isolated physicians are 4x more likely to burn out and 6x more likely to consider suicide than their most connected peers.
— Mayo Clinic, 2025
76%+ of CMDA clinicians have faced growing personally experienced increased pressure to compromise their moral, ethical, or religious beliefs.
— Meridian Magazine, 2019
84% of patients are comfortable discussing spiritual matters with their doctor — but only 9% of healthcare professionals ever bring it up.
— JAMA, 2022
60%+ of physicians and nurses say they were never trained to offer spiritual care, and that training gap — not unwillingness — is why they don't.
— St. Louis University School of Medicine, 2025
A quarter of Americans seeking mental health help go to clergy first, yet only ~15% consider going to a physician or mental health professional.
— Barna, 2024
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Faith and healthcare connected in practice and in life.
