Passionate pastor attempts to fix the missing spiritual link in churches across the U.S.

Reverend Percy McCray suggests that leaders of faith should undergo in-depth training programs to better deal with cancer-stricken patients and their hurting families. According to McCray, as it stands now, most churches across the United States lack the proper training.

span style="line-height: 15.8599996566772px;">MUNTINLUPA, PHILIPPINES (Catholic Online) - The pastor extended his mission, apart from his connection with medical practitioners with the Cancer Treatment Centers of America, to the church pastors -- encouraging their ability to help these people. The program called "Our Journey of Hope" tries to bridge the roles of pastors and medical professionals in giving adequate care to the cancer patients and their loved ones during their struggles.

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"We are bridging that gap and maintaining a very healthy, respectful line of balance and understanding that we are not asking the pastor to take the place of the doctor and we are not asking the doctor to take the place of the pastor. We are asking them to amalgamate and integrate their sciences, their philosophies, and their schools of thought on the best interest of the patient," he said in an interview with The Blaze.

The pastor has worked with more than 100 ministries, 300 churches and 500 ministers under the program, due to the increasing demand of help from their congregations.

"Our Journey of Hope," founded 20 years ago, is described as a "biblically-based cancer care ministry training program that provides a small group curriculum with which pastors are empowered to build a cancer care ministry within their own congregations," cited in the report.

According to Rev. McCray, the idea started after his encounter with a severely ill cancer-patient who later had a great recovery. She [the patient] claimed that the spiritual support had helped her through that healing process.

The pastor hopes that across the US, churches will begin investing in healthcare.

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