Pastoral care locates the individual within the context of a faith community. It attempts to address the hurt individuals experience in the struggle between social expediency and personal liberation. (Sutherland, 2001, p.386).
A faith community has history that is intertwined with the emotional histories of those who struggle to find a home within its boundaries. Pastoral care seeks to restore the individual to wholeness within a positive relationship to the Church, itself struggling to remain open to the guidance of the higher values of Kingdom as taught by the Jesus of the Gospels.
Pastoral Care & Counseling
Throughout history and the world, many believe that alcohol and drug abuse, family and relationship conflict, depression and suicide, child and spouse abuse, juvenile and social delinquency, and other problems that face our society today can be lessen – and in some cases erased — by an experience with pastoral care and counseling.
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