The Tribune

By ALESHA CADET

Tribune Features Reporter

acadet@tribunemedia.net

UNDER the theme ‘We Are Family, Does It Matter?’ the Pastoral Care Ministry of Saint James Anglican Church in Adelaide Village will hold a seminar on Saturday from 8am to 1pm in the church grounds to promote its pastoral care platform.

Topics will include Pastoral Care, Grief, Dysfunctional Families and Self Esteem.

Pastoral care is a ministry within the church that tends to the needs of members of a particular congregation. “It is the overflow of the healing love of God in our hearts for one another which will become a blessing to those in the wider community as well,” St James Anglican Church members said. “Jesus gives us an example of his care and compassion as he feeds and ministers to the needs of his disciples, and the members of their families.” They explained a biblical scripture which speaks about Peter denying Jesus.

“When Peter had denied him, Jesus took great care to re-instate him and to re-establish the intimate and loving bonds between them,” the members said. “We are encouraged to imitate our Lord’s pattern in this ministry.”

The Pastoral Care Ministry is also geared towards transformation and the willingness to be transformed into the likeness of Christ and a readiness to undertake regular and systematic responses to those in need.

The two main goals of the seminar are to meet congregational needs for care and counselling in a changing environment and to give ongoing assistance to members in crisis. A further aim is to provide the Church with a systematic and ongoing programe for Pastoral Care.

Through the seminar, it is the vision of the Pastoral Care Ministry that the process of healing will begin because people in this day and age live in a broken and fractured world.