Stephen
Ministry
Moultonboro
and South Tamworth
“A ministry that approaches brokenness in ones life with Christian care
and compassion to help find strength and wholeness in life once again.”
and compassion to help find strength and wholeness in life once again.”
Stephen Ministers have recently expanded their efforts! While a few ministers are currently not in a caregiving relationship they have been of great help to Pastor Paul with some special home visitation. At the same time a few new caregiving relationships have been initiated.
In the coming months it will be announced that a new SM training program will be scheduled. If you are interested to be considered for the training and feel you have the gifts of giving Christian care, compassion, and prayer, then please speak to; Rae Marie Davis, Nancy Hanson or Murray Nickerson.
Grace and peace of the Lord Jesus Christ
Stephen Ministry Featured on PBS April 9th, 2010 Stephen Ministry was recently featured on PBS™ Faith and Ethics television news program. Click on the video at the right to watch this interesting feature. For detailed information on this program, visit the PBS Religion and Ethics NewsWeekly website. |
What is Stephen Ministry?
Our congregation’s Stephen Ministry equips lay people to provide confidential, one-to-one Christian care to individuals in our congregation and community who are experiencing difficulties in their lives.
A
reminder
about the banner that
hangs on
the right, side wall of the church
sanctuary:
The Logo’s most dominant feature is the cross of Jesus. It reminds us that Christ is at the center of Stephen Ministry and all Stephen Ministry relationships. The broken person behind the cross symbolizes how we are all broken people,broken by our own sin and imperfections.
The whole person in front of the cross signifies wholeness we encounter through the transforming power of the cross of Jesus. It is only through Jesus and his life, death on the
cross and resurrection that we, who are broken people are made wholeThe circle is a symbol of God’s eternal and never ending love for us. God’s love surrounds us, holds us, heals us, with the cross of Jesus at the center of that love. For it was Jesus, God’s Son, who allowed himself to be broken on the cross to save us from our sin sin and give us the opportunity to be restored to wholeness through him.
The Stephen Series logo tells the story of a care receiver’s journey from brokenness to wholeness through the transforming power of the cross of Jesus. It serves as a simple reminder that it is not the Stephen Minister who restores a person to wholeness. Rather, it is only through
the cross of Jesus that a person can be made whole.
Should you or someone you know like to talk about Stephen Ministry and its mission of caregiving, you might speak to any of our Stephen Ministers,Rae Marie Davis or Murray Nickerson.
Stephen Ministry a caring ministry.
