What I am saying is that I want to make this a ministry of St. Andrew's, coming out of St. Andrew's. After some difficult discussions, St. Andrew's did accept MIM as a parish ministry, and Williams offers thanks to the leadership of the parish rector Chris Berg as well as the Daughters of the King for taking ownership of the ministry. Whether there are fears about logistics, liability, or lawsuits, the anxieties about a mental illness ministry automatically arise. You are talking to people in the church who very well may have a mentally ill person in their family and don't want to talk about it. Or if they don't have someone in their family, they're just not interested.
Mental illness is a chemical imbalance in the brain.
Klein has been a member of St. Martin's, Detroit, for a decade and a half and the church sexton for three years. There are a lot of wrongful myths about mental illness. Not only are they wrongful, but hurtful. Williams and Klein have first-hand experience with the stigmas that erupt from the issues surrounding mental illness. Although their effort is presently small, their hopes and aspirations for this new ministry are huge.