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| Resource: |
Book (821058) Caring Congregation Ministry: Implementation Guide
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| Author: |
Lampe, Karen and Gepford, Melissa |
| Publisher: |
Abingdon Press, 2021 |
| Vendor: |
Cokesbury |
| Length: |
190 Pages |
| Heading: |
LEAD — Leadership
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| Subjects: |
Health and Wholeness - physical/mental; Leadership - General; Parish Nurse Ministry |
| Location: |
Leadership |
| # Copies: |
1 |
| ISBN/ISSN: |
9781791013387
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| Description: |
Learn to build, launch, and sustain a congregational care ministry in your church–no matter the size, type, or denomination. Pastors and church leaders want to care for people in their congregations and communities, but pastors cannot care for an entire church, and most laypersons don't have the training to do it. The Caring Congregation Ministry is a model for person-to-person care that's been proven to work in small and large churches across the U.S. It is a laity-centered ministry in which laypersons receive rigorous training and then are commissioned to serve as Congregational Care Ministers, caring for others in their own congregation and their extended community. This Implementation Guide is the main book for getting started. It introduces the ministry model and explains the Five Essentials which form the ministry's foundation. It is extremely practical, full of checklists and other tools to help pastors and other leaders understand and explain this way of providing congregational care. The Implementation Guide also includes a section focused on the crucial component of this ministry–the Congregational Care Minister, or CCM. This section fully describes the characteristics of CCM's, how to recruit people to this ministry, how to discern if candidates are a good fit, and how to conduct the CCM training over a multi-week period. It details the critical information CCM's must know, and the behaviors and habits they must practice in order to be effective. The companion book, The Caring Congregation Ministry: Care Minister's Manual, available from Cokesbury, is required for the CCM training. It serves as a training workbook, which then becomes the CCM's personal reference manual. Chapters: First essential – recruit and equip; Second essential – identify roles and responsibilities; Third essential – establish the documentation system; Fourth essential – evaluate; Fifth essential – build the congregational need. Theological foundations; In all things, pray first!; Boundaries; Pastoral listening and spiritual guidance; visitation; Leading through the darkest valley; Documentation and logistics; Crisis and trauma; Mental health ministry; Recovery ministry; Communal trauma. |
| Age Groups: |
Young Adult; Adult (30-55); Adult (55+)
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