What is the Course About?
The purpose of the course is
for those who have responsibility for caring for people involved
with church communities. The quality of our caring is a sign of
God’s love to and for one another as the church looks to be the
body of Christ. It is also a witness to the wider community that
Christians have something special to offer a broken world that
needs healing and reconciliation.
The length of the session will
normally be about one and a half hours but no longer than two.
Each one will have both practical help and a theological
reflection on different aspects of pastoral care. The course can
be minister or lay led depending upon circumstances and would be
ideal for use by Area Partnerships.
I would hope that this resource
might help to train, enable and empower pastoral carers to help
create the “fullness of life” that Christ calls us into and that
in doing so the local church might also be a healing tool to the
wider world.
Pastoral
Care and Discipleship