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BOOKS & RESOURCES RECOMMENDED FOR CARE MINISTRY

Implementation Guide*

Care Minister's Manual

Care Minister's Manual

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 care team.

Order here

Care Minister's Manual

Care Minister's Manual

Care Minister's Manual

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. 

Order here

Concise Care Guide

Care Minister's Manual

TCC Podcasts on Soundcloud

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. 


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TCC Podcasts on Soundcloud

TCC Podcasts on Soundcloud

TCC Podcasts on Soundcloud

Visit Soundcloud

TCC Podcasts on Apple

TCC Podcasts on Soundcloud

TCC Podcasts on Apple

Visit Apple Podcasts

Online Courses

TCC Podcasts on Soundcloud

TCC Podcasts on Apple

Go to Teachable.com

CCM Tools: Care Cards & Anointing Vials

Recommended Reading including Addiction & Mental Health

CCM Tools: Care Cards & Anointing Vials

  • 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
  • Anointing vials discussed in our training are available to purchase at www.discountvials.com. Fill vials with Olive Oil.

COVID-19 Care Resources

Recommended Reading including Addiction & Mental Health

CCM Tools: Care Cards & Anointing Vials

  • 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

Recommended Reading including Addiction & Mental Health

Recommended Reading including Addiction & Mental Health

Recommended Reading including Addiction & Mental Health

  • 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

Listening & Spiritual Guidance

Boundaries & Visitation Resources

Recommended Reading including Addiction & Mental Health

  • 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



*page in the Care Minister's Manual


Boundaries & Visitation Resources

Boundaries & Visitation Resources

Boundaries & Visitation Resources

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





Death/Grief Resources

Boundaries & Visitation Resources

Boundaries & Visitation Resources

  • 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

Theology & Prayer Resources

Theology & Prayer Resources

Theology & Prayer Resources

  • 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



Care and Social Justice

Theology & Prayer Resources

Theology & Prayer Resources

  • 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



Care for Children & Youth

Theology & Prayer Resources

Care for Children & Youth

  • All Things Youth with Chris Wilterdink - TCC podcast 
  • Have you Asked the Youth? - TCC podcast
  • Care for College Students - TCC podcast
  • Dr. Leanne Hadley
  • I Wonder: Exploring God's Grand Story: an Illustrated Bible  by Glenys Nellist
  • Tips for Holy Conversations in the Home (crisis care for children)

CCM Start-up kit (DOWNLOADABLE forms)

CCM Application-short form (pdf)

Download

CCM Application-long form (pdf)

Download

CCM Recruitment Ad (pdf)

Download

CCM Interview Recap (pdf)

Download

CCM Interview Guidelines (pdf)

Download

CCM Confidentiality Agreement (pdf)

Download

ORGANIZATION & DOCUMENTATION (GOOGLE DOCS & FORMS)

CCM Basic Training Syllabus

CCM Care Documentation Form

CCM Prayer Request Assignments Form

Sample CCM Flyer/Newsletter

CARE MINISTRY WEBINAR/SEMINAR TRAINING ESSENTIALS

Training Resources for Your Care Ministry Team

To maximize the effectiveness of our training, whether online or in-person, we recommend all webinar & seminar participants obtain copies of two books co-authored by Karen Lampe and Melissa Collier Gepford: 

  1. The Caring Congregation Ministry: Implementation Guide 
  2. The Caring Congregation Ministry: Care Minister's Manual

These books will provide access to all the details and forms needed to establish your care ministry. 


We also recommend purchasing a printed set of Care Cards and Anointing Vials for use by your Congregational Care Ministers CCMS in caring out their ministry after training. Registrants will receive a digital version of the Care Cards with your handouts. 


Below you will also find additional care ministry resources such as books, videos and documents (CCM Start Up Kit forms) that you may find helpful in your ongoing care ministry. We will mention many of these throughout the training. 


NATIONAL WEBINAR REGISTRANTS will receive an email invitation to set up a "registrants only" account to gain access to "digital" training HANDOUTS, a schedule, and more. Once you set up your account, return here and  click on the "For Registrants Only" button below, type in your email and password that you just created to view and download everything you will need to be prepared for your upcoming training. 


NOTE: If you are attending a privately hosted webinar or watch party,  the host may elect to distribute this information directly to attendees. Contact your host if you did not receive your training materials or reach out to us at thecaringcongregation@gmail.com.


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