The Compassionate Congregation: A Handbook for People Who Care

by Ginger Jurries and Karen Mulder

Book Overview

This valuable handbook for elders, deacons, pastors, and other caregivers offers first-hand stories, practical advice, and resources to help churches care for people in a wide range of difficult... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1562128558
• ISBN13: 9781562128555
• Release Date: September 2002
• Publisher: Faith Alive Christian Resources
• Length: 303 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

For Christians seeking to become compassionately helpful

Collaboratively written by educators and seminar speakers Karen Mulder and Ginger Jurries, The Compassionate Congregation: A Handbook for People Who Care is a thoroughly "user friendly" guide for Christians seeking to become compassionately helpful to their friends and fellow church members caught up in the midst of inevitable and diverse crisis. Individual testimonies and anecdotes regarding matters of illness, parenting struggles, relationship difficulties, disabilities, and more fill out the pages of this helpful and very highly recommended instructional and inspirational guide to being truly good to those in need.