CARE MINISTRY TRAINING ESSENTIALS

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To maximize the effectiveness of our training, whether online or in-person, we recommend all participants obtain copies of two books co-authored by Karen Lampe and Melissa Collier Gepford: The Caring Congregation Ministry: Implementation Guide and The Caring Congregation Ministry: Care Minister's Manual. Available for purchase from the links below, these books will provide access to all the details and forms needed to establish your care ministry. Additional resources discussed in our training, but not contained in these two books, are listed below under Additional Training Resources and may be downloaded and printed. We also recommend you purchase a printed set of Care Cards and Anointing Vials for use by your Congregational Care Ministers CCMS in caring out their ministry after training (links to suppliers provided below).

 Webinar registrants will receive an email invitation to set up a private account to gain access to our "digital" materials and handouts. Once you set up your account, return here and  click on the "For Registrants Only" button, type in your email and password, and then you can view/download these resources and find links to everything you will need to be prepared for your upcoming training.

The Caring Congregation: Implementation Guide

*Click here for a free preview of Karen Lampe & Melissa Collier Gepford 's new book containing all the details on how to set up a care ministry in your church.

The Caring Congregation: Care Minister's Manual

 by Karen Lampe & Melissa Collier Gepford.

This companion book to the Implementation Guide is a personal training workbook and reference guide for CCMs. 

Order a set of Care Cards 

from the Well Bookstore 

at Church of the Resurrection. 

Cards come in sets of 1, 10 or 25

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 Cornonavirus

• Nurturing the Light Inside: Overcoming Addiction and Codependency  by Sherry Danner
• 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
• Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I’ve Loved by Kate Bowler