With the increasing psychosocial and mental health concerns in South Asia especially during the COVID -19 pandemic, we decided to hold our first webinar exploring on the same. The first webinar entitled “COVID-19 & mental health: exploring church’s understanding, role and response” was held in the evening of August 1. We had three experts in this field – Dr. Thambu Maniam from Malaysia, Rupa Pradhan Chhetri from Nepal and Antonia Ratnakala from India to shed a light on this issue.