Equipping laity to do hospital visitation

Ngie M Ting

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Equipping laity to do hospital visitation

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Ngie M Ting. Equipping Laity to Do Hospital Visitation. Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/05ce8114-8ed5-409d-a74f-f13427d28e3a.

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N. M. Ting. Equipping laity to do hospital visitation. https://rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/05ce8114-8ed5-409d-a74f-f13427d28e3a

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Ngie M Ting. Equipping Laity to Do Hospital Visitation. Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. https://rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/05ce8114-8ed5-409d-a74f-f13427d28e3a.

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Ngie M Ting

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Pastoral care of persons in the hospital is among the most needed ministries in the Chinese churches in Malaysia. many suffering church members are crying for help; yet churches often do not effectively meet their needs. The main reason is that there are very few pastors and no lay Christians trained to provide such care. The goal of this project was to train laity through practical, experiential, and clinical methods to engage in effective hospital visitation. This goal was achieved by training laity to provide pastoral care for hospital patients. The author planned for participants to attend eight sessions totaling sixteen hours of training. In these meetings they received instruction and participated in group activities. The first six sessions focussed on a basic understanding of pastoral care, the nature of hospitalization, the personal identity as a pastoral caregiver, the guidelines for the hospital visit, a model of pastoral conversation, and writing and presenting a verbatim report. The participants made five hospital visits after the sixth session. They then wrote a verbatim report and presented it to the class in the last two sessions of training.

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