Stephen Ministry
The role of a Stephen Minister is a Care-Giver; God is the Cure-Giver. Stephen Ministers listen, empathize, pray and provide emotional and spiritual support to hurting people. God works in and through Stephen Ministers to bring hope and healing.
Are you or someone you know feeling lonely, experiencing a crisis, struggling through a difficult time or simply finding yourself stressed by everyday life? Sometimes it helps to talk with someone who isn’t family, someone who isn’t necessarily a close friend, pastor, teacher, or counselor
Are you:
- Hospitalized?
- Grieving the loss of a loved one?
- Lonely?
- Depressed?
- Separated or in the process of divorce?
- Shut-in?
- Experiencing the birth of a child?
- Dying, or the family of those who are terminally ill?
- Experiencing loss of job, or financial setbacks?
- A family member in trouble with the law?
- New to our parish?
- Inactive members of our parish?
- Struggling with your faith in God?
| Stephen Ministry is one-to-one care given by trained lay people. Stephen Ministers are not counselors or therapists. Instead, they are Christian caregivers who offer a listening ear, prayers, and encouragement through life’s difficult times. | |
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