Event: EQUIPPING CHRISTIANS for PASTORAL CARE (ONLINE EVENT)
Speaker: Jeremy Witherow
Date: 28 JULY Wed
Time: 7:30pm to 10:00pm
Venue: ALBY Events via online ZOOM Video
Fee: $10 (includes participant’s notes)
A healthy church is one where people are growing spiritually and are fed and nurtured through each season of life. Though a sad reality in many churches is how many feel overlooked, neglected, and left to struggle. Pastors are often expected to shoulder the burden of every need and concern of their congregations. However, caring for God’s people was never meant to be the exclusive role of trained pastors, but a corporate responsibility. Only when “pastoral care” is practiced in our ministries will people in our congregations feel truly loved.
In fact, before Jesus ascended to His Father’s right hand, He tasked His followers with “making disciples” of every nation – a responsibility followers of Christ today are to continue in. And much more than saving souls, making disciples requires journeying with and ministering to God’s people through the offer of care and support, which is intrinsic to the practice of pastoral care.
Any Christian who loves God can administer pastoral care. However, what often holds us back is a faulty belief that only trained pastors can do this and a feeling that we are somehow unqualified for the task. But, through a correct understanding of the objective of pastoral care, and through applying some tried and true communication techniques, we can learn to become effective pastoral carers.
This equipping session will be of benefit to all who have a heart for people, and especially for those who lead others in some capacity in the local church, and who desire to become effective in their care of others.
Topics covered, include:
- Defining Pastoral Care
- The Corporate Dimension of Pastoral Care
- The Scriptural Basis of Pastoral Care
- Two Key Tasks of Pastoral Care
- The Pastoral Visit
- Communication to the Practice of Pastoral Care
- The Five Levels of Communication
- Steps to Effective Listening
- Active Listening
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Jeremy is from New Zealand, and at the age of 23, he was born again and baptised in the Holy Spirit. Called to the ministry, he left his career as a chef and gained a Bachelor of Ministries and a Master of Theology degree.
Jeremy served as a pastor in Singapore for nearly a decade before returning to his homeland, and now serves the Body of Christ through an itinerant teaching, preaching and prophetic ministry.
Jeremy is the author of THE VOICE OF PROPHECY: Reclaiming God’s Guidance for Today’s Church. This comprehensive book of nearly 900 pages on modern prophetic ministry received an endorsement from Bishop Bill Hamon. More details of Jeremy's ministry on www.jeremywitherow.com