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Pastoral care with children in crisis

Noted teacher and experienced counselor Andrew Lester challenges ministers to take up an often neglected task--caring for the children of the parish. It is the pastor's role, Lester says, to make spiritual sense out of the chaos of crisis. He looks to the ministry of Jesus as the model for faithful, effective ministry and illustrates how a...
Print Book, English, ©1985
Westminster Press, Philadelphia, ©1985
143 pages ; 21 cm
9780664245986, 0664245986
11236002
The pastoral neglect of children
Children are parishioners too!
What children in crisis need from the pastor
Some basic principles of pastoral care to children
The use of play in pastoral conversation
Pastoral care through art
Storytelling and pastoral care
Pastoral care through writing