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Each week, we choose several persons from our Laurel family to remember in our prayers. This list is known as our Caring Prayer List and the names can be found in your latest edition of the Laurel Leaf.
We also ask that you remember those whom you are aware of who face physical, emotional, and spiritual challenges.
Do you or a loved one need the support of prayer? Please let us know. Click here to complete our online Prayer Request form.
Visitations
Pastoral care is provided to those persons who are hospitalized, homebound, in retirement homes, or in nursing homes. Regular visits are made to several persons. Because of privacy laws, we are not informed about admissions to hospitals or nursing homes, unless you give permission. Please call or have someone call when you enter the hospital or a nursing home so that we can visit you and keep you in our prayers.
The Caring Ministry Team also plans special projects for this group. One of these projects is called Christmas In July. On two Sundays in July, bouquets of fresh flowers are delivered to more than 50 people to help brighten their day and week.
Stephen Ministry
Stephen Ministry is a lay ministry of one-on-one caring provided by trained persons. More than 70 Stephen Ministers and Leaders have been trained and commissioned here at Laurel. Currently, 14 ministers and 2 leaders are actively serving our church and our community.
This Christian listening ministry provides support and encouragement. Stephen Ministers receive extensive training and then are commissioned by the congregation.
In times of need, a Stephen Minister meets one-to-one with a care receiver of the same gender to show their Christian care through listening, supporting and encouraging, praying, being dependable and trustworthy and maintaining confidentiality. These meetings continue for as long as the care receiver benefits from the relationship.
It is the Stephen Minister’s goal to bring God’s love and healing power to those who are:
- Grieving
- In crisis
- In need of long-term care
- Dying
- Hospitalized
- Divorcing
- Experiencing losses as they age
- Going through a crisis of childbirth
- The family and friends of people in crisis
Stephen Ministry is Christ caring for people through people. Our ministers are the care givers. God is the cure giver!
To request assistance from a Stephen Minister, please e-mail Pastor Jerry King.
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