Pastoral Care

ASPECTS BEHIND EMPLOYEE BROKENNESS

Addiction, Substance abuse, Depression, Anxiety, Gambling, Thoughts of suicide, Illness, Financial difficulty, Debt, Bankruptcy, Child illness, Parenting struggles, Spousal abuse, Family violence, Aging and elder care, Marriage struggles, Separation or divorce, Spiritual concerns, Death or loss, Grief recovery.

PASTORAL CARE aims to focus on the following points:

• Healing – A pastoral function that aims to overcome some impairment by restoring the person to wholeness and by leading them to advance beyond their previous condition.

• Sustaining – Helping a hurting person to endure and to transcend a circumstance which restoration to their former condition is impossible

• Guiding – Assisting perplexed persons to make confident choices between alternative courses of thought and action.

• Reconciling – Seeking to re-establish broken relationships between man and fellow man and between man and God.

• Nurturing – Enable people to develop their potentialities, through the life journey with all its valleys, peaks, and plateaus.