BOOKS & RESOURCES RECOMMENDED FOR CARE MINISTRY

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The Caring Congregation: Implementation Guide

*Click here for a free preview of Karen Lampe & Melissa Collier Gepford 's primary book used in our Care Ministry training with details on how to  establish, organize, and train an effective team.

The Caring Congregation: Care Minister's Manual by Karen Lampe & Melissa Gepford. This companion book to the Implementation Guide is a personal training workbook and reference guide for Care Ministers. 

NEW! The Concise Guide to Congregational Care: Words to Use in Every Setting. A pocket size book of prayers & scriptures for pastors & CCMs  making visits to care facilities. 

• Order a set of Care Cards from the Well Bookstore covering > 20 topics at Church of the Resurrection.  Cards come in sets of 1, 10 or 25.  NOTE: There is an option for shipping.
• Anointing vials discussed in our training are available to purchase at www.discountvials.com. Fill vials with Olive Oil.

• Coronavirus Anxiety Workbook (free pdf download)
• Clean & Safe Communion Cups
• Brené Brown video interview discussing coping with grief, fear and anxiety during COVID-19.
• UMC.org - How your church should respond to Coronavirus

• Nurturing the Light Inside: Overcoming Addiction and Codependency  by Sherry Danner
• The Depression Cure by Stephen Ilardi
• EMDR Therapy
• Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I’ve Loved by Kate Bowler
• Why? by Adam Hamilton
• Blessed are the Crazy by Sara Griffith Lund
• National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI)
• Mental Health Ministries
• Pathways 2 Promise

• TCC Listening Podcast (season 1)
• Brene Brown on Empathy (video clip)
• Safety & Self-Care Contract (p.53*)
• Spiritual Care Asssessment Checklist (p.59*)
• National Suicide Prevention Hotline: 800-273-8255
• The Anatomy of Peace: Resolving the Heart of Conflict by the Arbinger Institute

*page in the Care Minister's Manual

• What are Boundaries?  (video by Dr. Henry Cloud)  
• Boundaries (video with Brene Brown
• Medical Terminology (p.68-74*)
• Hospital Visit Protocol & Kit for CCMs

• When Death is Imminent care card
• Funeral Pre-Planning Form
• Just in Time! Funeral Services by Cynthia Danals
• Journeying Through Grief - 4 booklets
• A Long Shadowed Grief: Suicide and Its Aftermath by Harold Ivan Smith
• Beyond the Broken Heart by Julie Yarbrough
• When the One You Love is Gone by Rebekah L. Miles
• Nora McInerny TED talk on Grief
• Learning to Walk in the Dark - Barbara Brown Taylor
• The Love and Loss of a Child - TCC podcast

• UMC: What We Believe
• Extreme Center by Bishop Scott Jones
• Fierce Love by Dr. Jacqui Lewis
• Henri Nouwen
• Howard Thurman
• Amplify Media
• Ruth Haley Barton
• The Importance of Prayer (TCC podcast)
• The Book of Common Prayer
• The Bible Through the Lens of Care (TCC podcast)

• What is Social Justice?
• The UMC Social Principles
• The Four Pivots: Reimagining Justice, Reimagining Ourselves by Shawn A. Ginwright PhD
• Eager to Love by Richard Rohr
• How to be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
• Jesus and the Disinherited by Howard Thurman
• Anchored in the Current: Discovering Howard Thurman as Educator, Activist, Guide, and Prophet
• Tattoos on the Heart by Gregory Boyle
• 40 Devotions for Justice People by Donna Barber
• 25 Traits of the Beloved Community
• TCC Podcast: Intersection of Care & Social Justice w/ Rev. Tino Herrera

• Children and the Holidays * 
• Three Things Every Family Needs, and One Thing They Don’t * with Rev. Melissa Collier Gepford
• Have you Asked the Youth? *
• Care for College Students *
• All Things Youth with Chris Wilterdink* 
• Holy Listening [to children] with Dr. Rev. Leanne Hadley* 
• I Wonder: Exploring God's Grand Story: an Illustrated Bible  by Glenys Nellist
• Tips for Holy Conversations (pdf) in the Home (crisis care for children)

*TCC podcasts

• Sample Files to Set up a Pet Ministry
• Sample Pet Ministry Website
• Sample Pet Ministry Facebook Page
• Sample Donation Wish List
• Pet Loss Support: pet-loss.net
• Canines 4 Christ
• Blessing of the Pets  (Video)
• God and Dog (Video)

• Reconciling Ministries Network Resources 
• Holy Love by Steve Harper
• Walking the Bridgeless Canyon: Repairing the Breach Between the Church and the LGBT Community by Kathy Baldock
• Intersection of Care and Social Justice, An Inclusive Church (TCC podcast)

• Ministry with the Forgotten: Dementia Through a Spiritual Lens by Bishop Kenneth Lee Carder
• VIDEO: Courageous Conversation with Dr. Kenneth Carder on Dementia
• The Gift of Years by Joan Chittister
• National Institute on Aging
• Administration on Aging (ACL)
• Alzheimers.gov
• Advanced Care Planning - FiveWishes.org