Pastoral Care
For fifty years Good Grief has helped millions of readers, including NFL players and a former first lady, find comfort and rediscover hope after loss. Now this classic text is available in a new edition with a foreword by one of the nation's leading communicators of medical health care information. An afterword by the author's daughters tells how the book came to be.
For fifty years Good Grief has helped millions of readers, including NFL players and a former first lady, find comfort and rediscover hope after loss. Now this classic text is available in a new edition with a foreword by one of the nation's leading communicators of medical health care information. An afterword by the author's daughters tells how the book came to be.
Since its publication, Christian Weddings has become the essential tool for engaged couples and pastors to plan unique and meaningful wedding services. It allows users to select the different elements of their wedding liturgy from a menu of choices in ceremonies from over twenty denominational traditions around the world.
This handbook is perfect for planning or attending interfaith wedding ceremonies. it contains information about the wedding rituals from many different faith traditions. Learn about things that happen before and after the ceremony, appropriate attire, gifts, and the ceremony itself.
Grief is a universal experience. We all go through it, whether it is the loss of a parent, a sibling, a friend, a job or pet, or being an immigrant in a new country or retiring.
Letters to Stephen is an account of one person's day by day struggle to deal with death while in the process of recovery. James Taylor's personal experiences and reflections on grief draw readers into issues such as symptoms of grief, the search for meaning, and the beginnings of acceptance and thankfulness.
With Ralph as narrator, these stories are each visually interpreted in their own way - by animation, illustration, or puppetry. One story is even performed by young people in India.
Stories include:
Pastors have the unique privilege of helping couples establish a life together. Premarriage Awareness Inventory is a simple and effective marriage preparation tool that reveals important issues couples need to address prior to marriage. Partners answer questions tailored to their situation and their responses create a basis for further discussion.
Silent Spaces is a resource for the pastoral care of those is hospital, and those who are ill or recovering. As every pastor knows, difficult times in life bring revealing moments. In addition to your important pastoral call during these times, our devotional pamphlets will help your parishoner grow in faith. They will also be a lasting reminder of your visit.
This 20-page booklet: