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Matthew 6:14-15: "For if you forgive other
people when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also
forgive you. But if you do not forgive others their sins, your
Father will not forgive your sins." - GOD
BIRTH OF A MINISTRY
After years of working with divorcees, Dr. Saunders noticed that
many who were unforgiving were more ill and often could not
complete programs such as Divorce Care in their recommended
format. Many of these divorcees reported illnesses such as
hypertension, arthritis, diabetes, and chronic back pain. While
working on her doctoral degree, Dr. Saunders discovered
evidence-based literature that documented the connection between
unforgiveness and chronic back pain. The article led her to
conduct more studies on this topic, and ultimately, she
completed her research on forgiveness and health in Black
divorcees - resulting in the peer-reviewed published article,
“Can Christian Divorce Support Groups influence Forgiveness and
Health Outcome in Black Divorcees: A Phenomenological
Investigation” in the Journal of Divorce and Remarriage.
After publishing the article, Magon continued to build her
knowledge in this area, but shortly afterward, she started
feeling a call to start a ministry to help people to forgive.
Already too busy to take on anything new, and not an ordained
minister, Magon tried to resist this call for months and came up
with several excuses regarding why this was not for her. But
finally, in 2015, she surrendered and started this ministry as
an inter-church program. This has allowed her to take the
message of forgiveness across the U.S. and the world. Since
then, Dr. Saunders and her team have developed courses, books,
and other resources to assist individuals on how to forgive.
In 2018, Forgive for Health Ministries hosted its first annual
conference, then filed for incorporation in the winter of 2019.
The ministry aims to help individuals recover from life’s trauma
and get them to move into a new life free from the burden of
unforgiveness.
PROGRAM GOALS
1. To encourage health care providers to assess the forgiveness
levels of all patients and to refer them to appropriate
“caring’’ professionals or ministries
2. To help all individuals to forgive so that they can live free
from the shackles of unforgiveness.
3. To implement trauma-informed care in African Americans and
other minorities, so that they can “thrive”, thereby reducing
health disparities.
4. Work to build awareness and the evidence-based for addressing
religion, education, food insecurity, transportation, and other
social determinants of health.
5. Serve as a bridge between faith communities and public health
to improve population health.
OUR VALUES
Integrity, Honesty, Love, Respect, Compassion, Quality, and
Christian Service
Integrity
We are upstanding in all we do and are guided by decency and
fairness.
Honesty
We are honest, open, and transparent in all of our dealings.
Love
We strive to show all people the love of Christ.
Respect
We respect and listen to every person.
Compassion
We show the compassion of Christ to all we meet.
Quality
We provide high-quality service and work with excellence as unto
Christ.
Christian Service
We follow Christ’s leadership in service to all mankind.
OUR WHY
Forgive for Health Ministries, Inc. exists to help all people to
forgive. We offer forgiveness assessments, workshops,
conferences, retreats, books, courses, and forgiveness circles,
etc. to empower attendees to forgive those who have transgressed
against them. We work with churches, other places of worship,
hospitals, clinics, health systems, schools, work sites,
families, etc. to assess forgiveness levels and to use that
information to start the journey to healing and restoration.
Forgive for Health Ministries, Inc. and its leaders believe in
whole-person care and recognize the importance of healing the
body, mind, soul, and spirit.
Incorporated in 2019, Forgive for Health Ministries works with
willing individuals to heal all their relationships for good. We
are committed to using all of our energy to work alongside God
to restore health to his people. Forgiveness and its healing
power have been critical in the life of our founder who has
faced abuse, abandonment, and a host of adverse childhood
experiences, trauma, and other life-altering events. Yet, today,
Dr. Saunders’s main desire is to help those who have experienced
trauma to come into the light of forgiveness.
Call us at 404-216-0621 or email us at
forgive4health@gmail.com
and let us help you heal all your relationships for good.
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“Forgiveness isn’t just practiced by saints or martyrs, nor
does it benefit only its recipients.” Instead, studies are
finding connections between forgiveness, physical, mental, and
spiritual health, and evidence that it plays a key role in the
health of families, communities, and nations. Though this
research is still young, it has already produced some exciting
findings- and raised some important questions (Worthington,
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