Comments on: Excellent Book for Training Pastoral Associates http://www.peacebang.com/2008/02/29/excellent-book-for-training-pastoral-associates/ The manic mind of the minister -- Auntie Mame Meets Cotton Mather Sat, 06 Sep 2008 05:30:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Elizabeth http://www.peacebang.com/2008/02/29/excellent-book-for-training-pastoral-associates/#comment-14225 Elizabeth Sun, 02 Mar 2008 19:13:49 +0000 http://www.peacebang.com/2008/02/29/excellent-book-for-training-pastoral-associates/#comment-14225 Wow - I'm just glad you train people. I went to a meeting of our pastoral visitors at church and they assigned me to someone without really telling me what I was supposed to be doing. I made a few visits and gave up, because I absolutely dreaded it and couldn't even tell if the person I was visiting wanted a visitor...she was too nice to say and I didn't know how to ask (I was 20-something at the time and much less sure of myself). Maybe I'll read this book and suggest it to the pastoral care folks at my church. Wow - I’m just glad you train people. I went to a meeting of our pastoral visitors at church and they assigned me to someone without really telling me what I was supposed to be doing. I made a few visits and gave up, because I absolutely dreaded it and couldn’t even tell if the person I was visiting wanted a visitor…she was too nice to say and I didn’t know how to ask (I was 20-something at the time and much less sure of myself). Maybe I’ll read this book and suggest it to the pastoral care folks at my church.

]]> By: Kim Hampton http://www.peacebang.com/2008/02/29/excellent-book-for-training-pastoral-associates/#comment-14169 Kim Hampton Sat, 01 Mar 2008 03:33:56 +0000 http://www.peacebang.com/2008/02/29/excellent-book-for-training-pastoral-associates/#comment-14169 hey hey hey...can I add a book suggestion? [<em>Hey, hey, hey, sure you can! Glad to have 'em! - PB</em>] One of the great things about taking Intro to Pastoral Care right now is that I have a group of books that I have to read. The best one, other than Peggy Way's book 'Created By God', is 'Cultivating Wholeness' by Margaret Kornfeld. It is interfaith, which is refreshing, and does lay out a model that lots of people can understand. While it is geared toward those studying for the ministry, it wouldn't be a bad book for lay leaders. hey hey hey…can I add a book suggestion? [Hey, hey, hey, sure you can! Glad to have ‘em! - PB]

One of the great things about taking Intro to Pastoral Care right now is that I have a group of books that I have to read. The best one, other than Peggy Way’s book ‘Created By God’, is ‘Cultivating Wholeness’ by Margaret Kornfeld.

It is interfaith, which is refreshing, and does lay out a model that lots of people can understand. While it is geared toward those studying for the ministry, it wouldn’t be a bad book for lay leaders.

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