<p><br><P> Ginger Burch has been commissioned as a Stephen Ministry leader at Good Samaritan Presbyterian Church in Waldorf.<P> Along with nearly 400 participants from across the U.S. and Canada, ...

No matter how caring and sincere a pastor or priest of any church or denomination is, he or she just can’t meet everyone’s needs for pastoral care. That’s where Stephen Ministries comes in. The ...

Divorce. Separation. Loss of a loved one through death or estrangement. Job loss or inability to find employment. Illness. Loneliness. Discouragement. Too often, people decide to soldier alone through ...

Stephen Ministry is designed to train compassionate listeners from among the laity. The ministry was started in 1975 by a pastor who found he was moving from crisis to crisis with no time to provide ...

Who can you turn to when life gets hard? Hundreds of people in and around the Springs turn to Stephen Ministers, lay people who have undergone training in providing one-to-one care for those who hurt.

Stephen Ministry trains lay people to serve as caring partners on a one-to-one basis for those people are are going through life's struggles and who need someone with a Christian perspective to come ...

The fury of last year’s Joplin tornado may have subsided and the stress of the holidays passed, but demands on the Stephen Ministry are stronger than ever. For the Christ’s Church of Oronogo Stephen ...

Stephen Ministries offer a proven and effective way to organize, equip and supervise a team of Lord of Life Lutheran Church's members in Baxter, called Stephen Ministers, to provide high-quality, ...

Since its inception 10 years ago, the ministry of congregational care and counseling at Union Baptist Church in Durham, North Carolina, has made Stephen Ministry a vital component of its continuum of ...

In 1974, Kenneth Haugk was armed with degrees from seminary school and a graduate degree in clinical psychology hoping it would equip him to pastor his church. But he quickly realized needs were great ...