Churches overflow with compassion and thrive in crisis but are often under-resourced when it comes to supporting believers through long-term struggles like chronic illness, mental health challenges, grief that lingers, or faith shaken by pain.
Where are you God?
Why aren’t I being healed?
How do I continue to pray when I don’t feel heard?
This is where The Lament Project comes in.
We help the modern church bring hope to the hurting in a sustainable way.
Our 4-week series on sickness and suffering equips followers of Jesus with the lost language of faith: biblical lament. Not as a last resort, but as a regular rhythm of authentic, hope-filled discipleship.
Through our 4-week series we create space for honesty with God in suffering, lighting the path to hope and joy while providing ministry teams and pastors with a genuine solution to pastoral burnout.
Our leadership training equips ministry leaders to walk alongside people with chronic conditions, physical or mental health related, as well as related spiritual struggles, helping whole congregations grow in empathy and joy.
Lament is not the end of faith, it’s the doorway to it. When we bring our pain to God, He meets us with His presence, and that changes everything.
We’ve found Churches that embrace biblical lament and a structured approach to caring for the unwell and hurting don’t become darker but deeper, more joyful, hopeful and more connected.
We believe this is one of the most exciting shifts the Church can make right now - to bring back biblical lament to better comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God (2 Cor 1:3-4).
About The Lament Project
Founder
Karra Eloff is the Founder of The Lament Project.
Through a personal journey navigating Endometriosis, a rare and painful bone disease and a spinal tumour (which led to learning to walk again) Karra has many times experienced a crushed spirit and a crisis of faith. That is until she learnt the power of biblical lament.
Karra was called to this work in 2019 but felt God was asking the wrong person so put offers on old houses so she could tell God she was busy renovating.
The call only grew stronger, prompting Karra to begin interviewing pastors and theologians to better understand how the modern church engages with suffering. These conversations evolved into regular gatherings for sick and suffering Christians, where Karra offered gospel hope and practical teachings into the lost prayer language of lament. After a year of these gatherings, a name emerged…The Lament Project, and what began locally soon drew interest from national and international communities.
Karra is also the Co-Founder and Managing Director of Eloff & Andrews Clinical Psychology, an Australian mental health company that has to date delivered more than 80,000 hours of one-on-one psychological care to her community.
She also consults for some of the world’s most innovative companies on chronic illness and pain, workplace performance, and relationships affected by illness. Her book, The Chronic Pain Couple, has been translated into multiple languages and is read by couples worldwide.
Through The Lament Project, Karra partners with churches and Christian organisations who share her desire to see lament and hope restored in the lives of people who are suffering, physically, emotionally or spiritually.
More information about Karra and her speaking and consulting can be found on her website here (www.karraeloff.com).