The Caring Church: A Guide for Lay Pastoral Care
The principles outlined here help laypersons develop or refine the skills needed for a ministry of healing, sustaining, guiding, and reconciling. Specific topics include interpersonal communication, hospital and shut-in visitation, and grief counseling.
- Publisher Fortress Press
- Format Paperback
- ISBN 9780800626181
- eBook ISBN 9781451409772
- Dimensions 5.5 x 8.5
- Pages 128
- Publication Date September 1, 1991
Endorsements
"Howard Stone has given a very useful gift to parish ministers and their congregations in this very concise, clearly written, practical, lucidly illustrated book. [His] contribution . . . grows out of the accumulation of practical experience, as well as scholarship."
— David K. Switzer, Journal of Pastoral Care
"A practical book, this summary of the author's seminars can be an aid in achieving what many pastors speak much of but do little about, i.e., getting the laity active in the ministry of the church."
— Donald Ratcliff, Journal of Psychology and Theology
— David K. Switzer, Journal of Pastoral Care
"A practical book, this summary of the author's seminars can be an aid in achieving what many pastors speak much of but do little about, i.e., getting the laity active in the ministry of the church."
— Donald Ratcliff, Journal of Psychology and Theology
Table of Contents
- Preface
- Pastoral Care and the Ministry of the Laity
- Lay Pastoral Care from a Theological Perspective
- A Training Model for Getting Started
- Session 1: What Is Lay Pastoral Care?
- Session 2: The Care Relationship
- Session 3: Listening and Responding
- Session 4: Hospital and Shut-in Vistitation
- Session 5: Care in Situations of Grief
- Session 6: Case Studies
- Session 7: Problem Solving and Referral
- Session 8: Wrapping Up
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New Directions in Lay Pastoral Care
Appendix A: Affirming Your Own Gifts
Appendix B: Service for Commissioning Lay Pastoral Carers
Appendix C: Four Case Studies
Notes
For Further Reading