Do’s and Don’ts of the Spiritual Care Network
Volume:
1
Issue:
2
Our Vision:
A confident, trustworthy and spiritually resourceful team offering pastoral and spiritual care to Ministry Personnel in BC Conference.
What Network members do...
- Offer spiritual crisis care for clergy in their presbytery
- Know when to connect a person in ministry to other forms of support
- Encourage collegial connections and spiritual friendship amongst ministry colleagues
- Initiate local activity in support of the vision of the Spiritual Care Network
- Keep members of presbytery aware of the network
- Facilitate conversations in presbytery about spiritual care
- Identify leadership for the provision of spiritual care in presbytery
- Know and offer spiritual care resources for referral as needed
- Maintain one’s own spiritual well being through prayer and spiritual practices
What we don’t do...
- Offer a counseling service to people in ministry
- Undermine our own spiritual centeredness by trying to do too much
- Use confidential information from our spiritual care in evaluative processes in presbytery
