St. James's Episcopal Church
West Hartford Center
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MINISTRIES: Pastoral Care
When you consider the role of pastoral care in a large congregation, your thoughts may go in many directions. Our hearts reach out to many persons across the whole spectrum of St. James's Church.
Pastoral care involves clergy and laity responding to challenges of faith, life crises, and ordinary questions along our various paths. This may include a note to ease a long recovery, calls to those awaiting surgery, meals to those who are bereaved and visits to those in nursing homes. It is prayer with one who is anxious about a loved one's well being. It is guidance through decisions about family issues. It is a parishioner knitting a prayer shawl to give to someone in hospice care. Spiritual and emotional needs are individual and particular. Thus we seek to minister to members in specific ways as needs arise--always preparing the way for the Lord so that God's presence may be known.
The following pastoral ministries may be of help to you: Care Giver Support Group, Healing Ministry Team, and the Prayer Shawl Ministry.
You may also wish to participate in these groups.
Pastoral care involves clergy and laity responding to challenges of faith, life crises, and ordinary questions along our various paths. This may include a note to ease a long recovery, calls to those awaiting surgery, meals to those who are bereaved and visits to those in nursing homes. It is prayer with one who is anxious about a loved one's well being. It is guidance through decisions about family issues. It is a parishioner knitting a prayer shawl to give to someone in hospice care. Spiritual and emotional needs are individual and particular. Thus we seek to minister to members in specific ways as needs arise--always preparing the way for the Lord so that God's presence may be known.
The following pastoral ministries may be of help to you: Care Giver Support Group, Healing Ministry Team, and the Prayer Shawl Ministry.
You may also wish to participate in these groups.
Urgent Pastoral Calls
The clergy of St. James's consider it a privilege to be involved in the events of parishioners' lives - whether joyful or sorrowful - and to minister in any way to them. It is important to call the parish office if you have any concerns.
If you are experiencing a pastoral emergency, please call the Church office and ask to speak to a clergy person. If it is after hours, again, do not hesitate to call. Listen to the prompts on the answering machine to be directed to a clergy person's voice mail. Call the number given in the recorded outgoing message for pastoral emergencies.
If you are experiencing a pastoral emergency, please call the Church office and ask to speak to a clergy person. If it is after hours, again, do not hesitate to call. Listen to the prompts on the answering machine to be directed to a clergy person's voice mail. Call the number given in the recorded outgoing message for pastoral emergencies.
Pastoral Care