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Council Welcomes Elizabeth Brewington to Partners in Health and Wholeness

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The NC Council of Churches was recently awarded an eighteen-month grant to promote compassionate solutions, based on health and human dignity, to the opioid crisis in North Carolina.

This work will be conducted through the Partners in Health and Wholeness initiative of the Council, an established program partnering directly with congregations to improve the health of their congregants and communities.

Please join us in welcoming the program coordinator for this effort, Elizabeth Brewington. Elizabeth is a native North Carolinian, who spent most of her life in Greensboro before deciding to explore the Midwest for college. Elizabeth is a graduate of the College of Wooster in Ohio, where she received a dual Bachelor of Arts in sociology and religious studies. Most recently she has completed a year of service through the Episcopal Service Corps.

Elizabeth is excited to join the NC Council of Churches and is passionate in her commitment to the faith community. She will be reaching out to faith leaders across the state in the coming months. If you would like to connect with Elizabeth and learn more about the work being done for people who use drugs and their families, please email her at Elizabeth@ncchurches.org.

To learn more about Partners in Health and Wholeness, please visit www.healthandwholeness.org.

About Chris Pernell, Director, Partners in Health and Wholeness

Chris is a native Kentuckian and the daughter of missionary parents who served Eastern Kentucky for more than 40 years. She relocated to North Carolina in 1981 and has come to call NC home. Prior to coming to the Council, she spent several years in corporate America before joining a faith-based, nonprofit medical clinic serving the uninsured and under-served of Franklin County. Chris is excited to be a part of the Council’s PHW program where she can utilize her background in health care and service. She and her husband have two children, a cat, a dog, and a surprisingly friendly bearded dragon. In her free time, Chris enjoys reading, basketball, and traveling, especially to the mountains.

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