Who?
A team of lay people, selected by the Parish Minister for pastoral care, and trained in pastoral listening skills, gentle ways of offering support, and resource referrals. Current Pastoral Care Associates include: Tom Lunt, Mark Massaro, Sue Murray, Claire Wilson, Eileen Young, and Roy Young. The team meets monthly with the Parish Minister for mutual support and ongoing training.
What?
To provide confidential, friendly support for people experiencing life’s difficult transitions, and/or for family members whose lives are also affected.When?In times of illness, bereavement, major life transitions, or unusual stress. Sometimes the relationship is just a conversation or two, sometimes it continues over a longer period.
Where?
In homes; hospitals; nursing homes; workplaces; neighborhoods; at church; on a park bench; at a lunch counter; or wherever is mutually convenient and comfortable for you.
Why?
As a religious community we need to be a network of care and support for one another. In difficult times it does help to lean a little on someone else; because family and friends, whose love and care are deeply important in these times, are often entangled in your life in ways that complicate their support. Our Pastoral Care Ministry Team offers the range of care offered by the Parish Minister.
How?
Request for support from a Pastoral Care Associate can be addressed to any one of the team members. The Associate will then arrange a first meeting or conversation—ready to extend their caring companionship, active listening and non-judgmental feedback. Often the Parish Minister may sense that such support would be helpful and will take the initiative, asking the person in transition if he or she would be receptive to meeting with a Pastoral Care Associate.
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