Prayer is a key component in our ministry to individuals. James 5:13-14 tells us to ask for prayer when we are suffering or sick.
Prayer
We maintain a weekly prayer list for those requesting prayer for themselves or other loved ones. Staff and volunteers both pray for these needs each week and contact those on the list regularly. Names can be submitted through the website, phoned into the church office or emailed.
Visitation
This ministry makes home visits, hospital visits, nursing home visits and writes cards to those facing health challenges. Additionally, each time communion is served in worship, Holy Communion is delivered to those on the shut-in list.
Counseling
The pastoral staff will gladly meet with an individual to listen, pray and discern next steps. Formal counseling is offered via a referral to one of our local Christian counseling center partners.
Stephen Ministry®
Stephen Ministry equips its members to provide confidential, one-to-one Christian care to individuals in our congregation and community experiencing difficulties in their lives. Stephen Ministers are members of the congregation with the gift of caregiving and are carefully selected to walk beside hurting individuals. If you would like to be a Stephen Minister or are going through some issue in life and need a Stephen Minister, please contact the Congregational Care team.
For more info about Stephen Ministry®, visit their website.
Spiritual direction is an ancient, contemplative practice of attentive, prayerful listening. It is “help given by one Christian to another which enables that person to pay attention to God’s personal communication to him or her, to respond to this personally communicating God, to grow in intimacy with this God and to live out the consequences of the relationship” (William A. Barry and William J. Connolly, The Practice of Spiritual Direction).
If you or someone you know is in need of any of the above services we provide, call the church office at (803) 490-0200 or email us.
