<p><br><P> Ginger Burch has been commissioned as a Stephen Ministry leader at Good Samaritan Presbyterian Church in Waldorf.<P> Along with nearly 400 participants from across the U.S. and Canada, ...

No matter how caring and sincere a pastor or priest of any church or denomination is, he or she just can’t meet everyone’s needs for pastoral care. That’s where Stephen Ministries comes in. The ...

Divorce. Separation. Loss of a loved one through death or estrangement. Job loss or inability to find employment. Illness. Loneliness. Discouragement. Too often, people decide to soldier alone through ...

Stephen Ministry trains lay people to serve as caring partners on a one-to-one basis for those people are are going through life's struggles and who need someone with a Christian perspective to come ...

Stephen Ministry is designed to train compassionate listeners from among the laity. The ministry was started in 1975 by a pastor who found he was moving from crisis to crisis with no time to provide ...

St. Elmo Presbyterian will host a Stephen Ministry Introductory Workshop on learning to be an active listener and reaching out to others in a distinctively Christian way on Saturday, March 4, from 9 a ...

In 1974, Kenneth Haugk was armed with degrees from seminary school and a graduate degree in clinical psychology hoping it would equip him to pastor his church. But he quickly realized needs were great ...

It takes time to build trust, Joyce McNeil said, and as a Stephen minister at Carroll Lutheran Village, a retirement community in Westminster, McNeil, 86, is grateful each time she reaches it with a ...