Pastoral Care Groups

In its simplest form “Pastoral Care” is a means by which the Parish looks after itself. In practical terms, it involves those members of the parish who have volunteered to be pastoral carers, taking responsibility to “look out for” 4 or 5 other members of the parish family. Pastoral Care in non-intrusive, Christian love in action and involves such things as conversations at church to see how things are going; a phone call or visit if someone has been away from church – just to check if all is well; and when a church member is sick, passing on church information such as news sheets and publications and just keeping in touch so that people know that they are “cared” for and not forgotten. When new folk come to our church it is important to us and to them that we let them know that they are part of a loving family that cares. The coordinators meet as they see the need, to amend and update data and to reallocate carers and carees as the need arises.