The Tribune

UNDER THE theme “We Are Family, Does It Matter?”, the Pastoral Care Ministry of Saint James Anglican Church recently held a seminar to promote its platform.

The seminar took place on the church grounds in Adelaide Village, covering topics that included pastoral care, grief, dysfunctional families, clinic pastoral care and self-esteem.

Persons addressing the seminar included Canon S Sebastian Campbell, Father John Kabiga, Carolyn Hepburn, Cecila Askew and Dr Katherine Conliffe.

Pastoral Care is a ministry within the church that tends to the needs of those 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. 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,” said St James Anglican Church members.

The Pastoral Care Ministry is also geared towards transformation.

“It is a willingness to be transformed into the likeness of Christ and a readiness to undertake regular and systematic responses to those in need,” the members said.

The goals of the seminar were two-fold: To meet congregational needs for care and counselling in a changing environment and to give ongoing assistance to members in crisis. Moreover, another goal was to provide the church with a systematic and ongoing programme for Pastoral Care.

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