<p><br><P> Ginger Burch has been commissioned as a Stephen Ministry leader at Good Samaritan Presbyterian Church in Waldorf.<P> Along with nearly 400 participants from across the U.S. and Canada, ...

No matter how caring and sincere a pastor or priest of any church or denomination is, he or she just can’t meet everyone’s needs for pastoral care. That’s where Stephen Ministries comes in. The ...

Divorce. Separation. Loss of a loved one through death or estrangement. Job loss or inability to find employment. Illness. Loneliness. Discouragement. Too often, people decide to soldier alone through ...

An effort is underway to create an Oshkosh-based Stephen Ministry program, with training planned for this fall. Stephen Ministry is a confidential one-to-one caring ministry that takes place in ...

Two members of St. John’s United Methodist Church were among 335 pastors and congregation leaders at a Stephen Series Leader’s Training Course held Jan. 13-19 in Orlando, Florida. Rob Persons and ...

Who can you turn to when life gets hard? Hundreds of people in and around the Springs turn to Stephen Ministers, lay people who have undergone training in providing one-to-one care for those who hurt.

Reformation Lutheran Church will offer workshops next month to teach and inform people about a caregiving ministry called the Stephen Series. The workshops will take place from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. April ...

The Stephen Ministry encompasses more than 10,000 Christian congregations in all 50 states, across Canada and in at least 23 other countries. The Stephen Ministry of Christian care giving is growing ...

Since its inception 10 years ago, the ministry of congregational care and counseling at Union Baptist Church in Durham, North Carolina, has made Stephen Ministry a vital component of its continuum of ...

In 1974, Kenneth Haugk was armed with degrees from seminary school and a graduate degree in clinical psychology hoping it would equip him to pastor his church. But he quickly realized needs were great ...

It takes time to build trust, Joyce McNeil said, and as a Stephen minister at Carroll Lutheran Village, a retirement community in Westminster, McNeil, 86, is grateful each time she reaches it with a ...

When someone you know is facing cancer, what can you do to reach out and help? The newest book from Stephen Ministries offers a simple and powerful answer. ST. LOUIS—When someone you know is facing ...