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The Positive Power of Community

Claire McCollum explores how the power of faith and community can help people in body, mind and spirit, and visits a remarkable church that uses wrestling to improve mental health.

Claire McCollum is in Yorkshire to celebrate the positive power of faith and community, and how it benefits the body, mind and soul.

Claire visits Mercy UK, a Christian mental health and wellbeing charity in Oxenhope, to see how their courses have helped people like Lynne recover from an eating disorder, before seeing something extraordinary in a church in Shipley – a wrestling club run by Gaz Thompson which improves the physical and mental health of its members through Bible stories and body slams.

And a look at how a community choir in Manchester provides support and hope for people who have lost loved ones to suicide.

With music to celebrate the closeness of God in both the good times and the bad.

1. Goodness of God - Way Church, Wigan
2. Make Me a Channel Of Your Peace, Down Cathedral, Downpatrick
3. On Eagle's Wings - Our Lady's Church, York
4. Nearer, My God, to Thee - Laura Wright
5. Raise a Hallelujah - Reach, Derby
6. Great Is Thy Faithfulness - The Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich

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34 minutes

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Next Sunday 13:25

Credits

Role Contributor
Presenter Claire McCollum
Executive Producer Jacqueline Hewer
Executive Producer Caroline Matthews
Series Producer David Waters
Producer Ross Blair
Production Company CTVC

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