Indispensable Guide to Pastoral Care

What is pastoral care? Being present to others in a loving way, a relationship rooted beyond yourself, and what you say and do in this relationship. Sound complicated? Sharyl B. Peterson recognizes that as students learn more about specific areas of-facilitating pastoral conversations, making hospital visits and planning funerals, offering bereavement care, and celebrating weddings and births-they also learn to draw connections to care and its theological foundations. &quote;The Indispensable Guide to Pastoral Care&quote; helps to link these elements by helping you to practice pastoral caregiving while you learn to explore various areas of care.