R6 Pastoral Care in the Local Church

Welcome to the R6 Local Church in the Community Weekend web page. This page is designed to provide useful resources relating to topics covered in R6 with WEMTC. If you have found useful resources or have questions you would like ask, please do contribute. These weekends are linked to the Home Church Reflection module

What is this Weekend all about?

The fourth and final weekend particularly explores how your church organises and carries out its pastoral care for both church members and the wider community.

Click here for:

• Full module description for R6
• Sample R6 Programme
• Residential Timetable for dates of the weekend
• Booklists for the weekend
• Handouts for the weekend

Books

• Bowden A Ministry in the Countryside London, Mowbray 1994
• Chauvet, L-M. Symbol and Sacrament Liturgical Press, 1995
• Davie, G. Religion in Britain since 1945 Oxford, Blackwell, 1996
• Dulles, A. Models of the Church 2nd edition Doubleday 1988
• Greenwood, R. Practising Community: the Task of the Local Church London, SPCK 1996
• Macquarrie, J. A Guide to the Sacraments London, SCM, 1997
• Warren, R. Building Missionary Congregations CHP 1995
• Williams, R. Lost Icons: Reflections on Cultural Bereavement Edinburgh, T&T Clark, 2000

R6 Pastoral Care in the Local Church Web Resources

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St Benedict and St John's Pastoral Care Links

An eclectic set of links on pastoral care in a variety of situations from the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University an American Seminary.

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A sample R6 Weekend Programme

Preparation

Programme

Saturday
8:00        Worship
8:30        Breakfast
9:15        Session 2
10:45      Coffee Break
11:15      Session 3
1:00        Lunch
2:00        Free
4:15        Session 4
6:00        Worship
6:30        Dinner
7:30        Session 5

Sunday
8:30        Breakfast
9:15        Session 6
10:30      WEMTC Forum
2:00        Coffee
2:30        Worship
1:00        Lunch

Preparatory Assignment

ASSIGNMENT 4 PASTORAL INTERVIEWS

Our final residential on the Home Church Reflection theme will be on Pastoral Care in the Local Community. The preparation assignment has a dual purpose:

1. To find out about Pastoral Care in your local church
2. To gain some practice at pastoral visits

Visits to the Leadership
Visit the following people:

1. Your minister or the person who has main pastoral responsibility for the church
2. An other leader in the church e.g. a Warden, Steward, other clergy

1. What do they understand is the minister's role in pastoral care ?
2. How do they see pastoral care happening within your church?
3. What sources of pastoral care does the leader have themselves?

Visits to the Congregation
Visit the following people:

1. A male member of the congregation
2. A female member of the congregation (Try to pick 2 members who represent different groups in your church.

1. What do they understand is the minister's role in pastoral care?
2. How do they see pastoral care happening within your church?
3. Have they any examples of times when they feel they have received good care from the church (or not)?

Notes from your Visits & Confidentiality
After each visit complete the attached Pastoral Visit Form and bring these 4 forms to the weekend.

In all cases names should be changed or initials used. Things may come up in your talks that are confidential in which case they should not be included on these forms (although you may want to note and reflect on them in the privacy of your Learning Journal. However it may help to explain to people that you are doing this as part of your training and the talk will help you prepare to be a minister.

P101 Pastoral Visits

Your Name:
Date:
Visit to:
Leader/ Member of the Congregation (please delete as appropriate

1. What do they understand is the minister's role in pastoral care?
2. How do they see pastoral care happening within your church
3. Their experience of pastoral care for themselves.
4. Other Useful notes from the Meeting
5. Any follow up action that may be needed.

Resources Addition Form

Contribution to this Page

Code and title

Tutor

Brief description

Level and Credits

Status

Type

Prerequisites

Restrictions

Content summary

• Sharing experiences of the local church in a number of different contexts, such as liturgy, local community, pastoral care, ministerial practice.
• Exploration of models of the Church in relation to the local church
• Developing tools for collecting and understanding church data
• Use of the Pastoral Cycle
• Biblical models and stories of Church and their relationship to the local church
• Reflection on liturgy and the local church
• The Church's role in the community with reference to the local church
• Reflections on the Church and pastoral care in relation to the local church
• An exploration of Missiological themes in relation to the local church
• Worship and Sacraments including: Worship on the Course; Learning from Tradition; Worship and the Senses; Recent experiments in liturgy

Learning outcomes

a) Knowledge and Understanding

• Be familiar with some of the significant theological models for the Church
• Have an understanding of different worship traditions and ways of being the Church within an ecumenical perspective
• Understand a variety of traditions and perspectives on the relationship between Church and Community
• Have considered a number of models of pastoral care as exemplified in the communities represented by the group
• Deepened their understanding of the nature of worship Have considered different understandings of the role and nature of the sacraments

b) Skills

• Have gained skills in working and theologically reflecting with a small group.
• Have gained a respect for the strengths of traditions other than their own
• Demonstrate an understanding of the pastoral cycle
• Be able to theologically describe and reflect on their home church
• Be able to connect scriptural insights to their home church context
• Be able to apply theological insights in practical situations
• Be equipped to organise and lead worship within WEMTC and have developed the confidence to explore worship within the home church

Teaching and learning

Assessment

Indicative resources

• Bowden A Ministry in the Countryside London, Mowbray 1994
• Chauvet, L-M. Symbol and Sacrament Liturgical Press, 1995
• Davie, G. Religion in Britain since 1945 Oxford, Blackwell, 1996
• Dulles, A. Models of the Church 2nd edition Doubleday 1988
• Greenwood, R. Practising Community: the Task of the Local Church London, SPCK 1996
• Macquarrie, J. A Guide to the Sacraments London, SCM, 1997
• Warren, R. Building Missionary Congregations CHP 1995
• Williams, R. Lost Icons: Reflections on Cultural Bereavement Edinburgh, T&T Clark, 2000