The Compassionate Congregation | Karen Mulder & Ginger Jurries

Karen Mulder & Ginger Jurries. The Compassionate Congregation: A Handbook for People Who Care. Faith Alive, 2002. 275 pp.

This handbook is intended to help ordinary pewsitters–as well as pastors and officebearers–be caring and compassionate friends to persons going through a crisis. Section 1 of The Compassionate Congregationconsists of first-person accounts of crises faced by individuals whom the authors interviewed. Here you will find stories on nearly two dozen topics, including abortion, abuse, AIDS, aging, cancer, death, depression, illness, substance abuse, unemployment, and much more.

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