pastoral care

While most pastors are known for making hospital visits to encourage church members with ailing health, Georgia pastor James Slick took his pastoral care to another level last year.

Justin and Lindsey Holcomb join the Stetzer ChurchLeaders Podcast to talk about how pastors can help provide Jesus-focused, trauma-informed care to the abuse survivors in their congregations.

If we need to take action to care for ourselves, how much more do those under our care? Here are four ways we can better care for our church staff who have, are, or will be suffering the effects of the pandemic.

On Sunday, former president and CEO of LifeWay Christian Resources Thom Rainer asked his Twitter followers to share one or two of the biggest struggles they're currently facing. Here's what they said.

The pandemic has deeply modified how we are connecting with people. The irony is that technology has made a difficult situation easier . . . in some ways. I’ve been reading accounts of the Spanish Flu pandemic in 1918 and the correlations to the current Covid-19 pandemic are startling.

Alan Briggs discusses how pastors and other church leaders can manage expectations—both internal and external—in order to avoid "pastor overwhelm."

This is really a story about emergency room vs. family practice pastoral care. And the shift I needed to make before our church could thrive.