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The Pictou County OSL Chapter conducts healing services at St. George's Anglican Church
in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia six times a year: the
third Sunday of September, October, November,
February, March and April.  Normally there is a Spring workshop.
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The present executive is comprised of:
Pauline Henaut ~ convener,
The Rev. Donald MacKay ~ chaplain,
Brenda MacLaughlin ~ secretary,
George Henaut ~ publicity,
Lois Bruce ~ member-at-large.
The Scientific and Medical
Basis of the Healing Ministry

As recently as 1995 only three medical schools in the United States taught courses on the relationship between spirituality and healing.  Now over thirty
schools have such courses and twenty more are interested in developing them. A 1997 survey in a Canadian medical journal, Medical Post, revealed that
70% of Canadian physicians say that  prayer is a part of their lives; 25% say that they pray daily.

Mike Woods of the Scripps Howard News Service reported that in "A study of 91, 909 men and women in Maryland there were 50% lower death rate from heart attacks, emphysema and suicide among those who attended church regularly.  Another  study of 16,130 high school students revealed that the more religious students had lower rates of alcohol and drug abuse.  Religious kids also had a lower risk of teenage pregancy, sexually transmitted diseases and related problems.

Dr. Dale A. Matthews, of Georgetown University Medical School, reviewed studies on the effects of religious commitment on health.  Fully 160 (75%)
showed a positive benefit of religious commitment, 37 (17%) revealed a mixed effect and 15 (7%) a negative effect.  Matthews states that it is unfortunate that in the history of medicine, "Science claimed the body (later the mind) as its purview, while religion held onto the soul."

Dr. Robert O. Becker, Professor of Orthoperdics,
New York State University Hospital:
"What the physician is doing today
is attempting to duplicate
what the healer did
in times of antiquity."


Studies continue to document the relationship between prayer and healing.  New studies at Dartmouth Medical School, Duke University School of Medicine, and Yale University show that prayer and medication have a profound effect against disease and illness.  In separate studies it was found that:

Heart patients were 14 times more likely to die following surgery if they did not participate in religion.

Elderly people who never or rarely attended church had a stroke rate double that of people who attended regularly.


Jesus said:"Whenever two or three of you come together in my  name,
I am there with you."
  Matthew 18:20
SHARING
A Journal of Christian Healing
is published monthly,
except bimonthly June/July
and November/December
by the International OSL
P.O.Box 13701
San Antonio  TX 78213

The journal includes
information on healing, testimonies,
resources available, pending conferences, etc.

Free copies are available at the Local Chapter's
healing services!
If you have a prayer request that you would like the Pictou County Chapter to raise in prayer,
please send us the name(s) of the individuals and/or situation (s)  for whom you desire prayer.
You may simply provide the names or if desired, add a few details!
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