The Caring Congregation: How to become one and why it matters

Author: Karen Lampe

Offer healing, hope, and redemption to those in need.  Using this four session study, modeled after The United Methodist Church of the Resurrection in Leawood, Kansas, churches can form an effective team by addressing for key areas of congregational care: prayer ministry, support ministry, hospital visitation, and grief and death ministry.

In her role overseeing the care of 18,000 parishioners at The United Methodist Church of the Resurrection, Karen Lampe has developed what many consider to be the best congregational care practices in the United States.  In this book she describes those standards and offers concrete stories illustrating their practice and step-by-step instruction for how to offer outstanding pastoral care.  this is a “must read” book for pastors, lay ministers, and seminary students.