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 ...

The Stephen Ministry encompasses more than 10,000 Christian congregations in all 50 states, across Canada and in at least 23 other countries. The Stephen Ministry of Christian care giving is growing ...

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 ...

An effort is underway to create an Oshkosh-based Stephen Ministry program, with training planned for this fall. Stephen Ministry is a confidential one-to-one caring ministry that takes place in ...

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.

Reformation Lutheran Church will offer workshops next month to teach and inform people about a caregiving ministry called the Stephen Series. The workshops will take place from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. April ...

In churches across the city, there are groups of people ready and waiting to help those in need of someone to listen and talk with them. They're not ordained and they don't preach on Sundays, but ...

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 ...

Stephen Ministry gets its name from the early Christian leader and Christianity’s first martyr, said the Rev. Steve Sathre, Trinity’s pastor. In the New Testament book of Acts, Stephen is named as one ...

Two members of St. John’s United Methodist Church were among 335 pastors and congregation leaders at a Stephen Series Leader’s Training Course held Jan. 13-19 in Orlando, Florida. Rob Persons and ...

In addition to Arden Courts, Lake also works in the Acute Care Unit of the Cleveland Clinic. She sees the effects of dementia and Alzheimer’s on a daily basis. Part of the point of the experience was ...