{"product_id":"saying-our-stories-ronald-h-sunderland-9798891577244","title":"Saying Our Stories: A Guide for Individuals Who Are Story-Listeners","description":"\u003cp\u003eSOS is the culmination of my work since 1966, when my wife, Noel, and I moved from Melbourne, Australia, to Houston, Texas. My initial goal was to begin a four-year clinical pastoral education program (CPE) at the Institute of Religion in the Texas Medical Center. The long-term dream was to develop a parish-based lay pastoral education program to equip laypeople to serve with their ordained pastors in the pastoral ministry of the parish.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUntil the midnineteenth century, pastoral care was the province of parish clergy, for which few were adequately equipped. I aimed to change that model by demonstrating that laypeople with the necessary training were integral to the church's ministry. That would entail providing clergy with supervisory skills.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe founder organizations of the newly constituted Association for Clinical Pastoral Education (ACPE) had pioneered clergy pastoral care education in the 1920s. The Equipping Laypeople for Ministry (ELM) program, which I founded in 1979, proved effective in the dual tasks of lay pastoral care training and the preparation of clergy for their necessary function of oversight of lay pastors.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSaying Our Stories is the account of the pioneering effort to undertake those tasks and demonstrate the effectiveness of the new model of parish pastoral ministry. It is a book of stories. The text suggests that pastoral care, at heart, is knowing that when a troubled person casts round for someone to listen to her (or his) story, they need a caring story-listener. Such listening is hard work, but story-listeners know that to listen is to care. If they finish up thinking, \"All I did was listen,\" they know it is such a big all!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ronald H. Sunderland\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798891577244\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Page Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/28\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 154\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.52lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.36d","brand":"Ronald H. Sunderland","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45934233354495,"sku":"9798891577244","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_fccb8500-d9a9-40c3-bf4b-9544326d3263.jpg?v=1721790669","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/saying-our-stories-ronald-h-sunderland-9798891577244","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}