A comforting congregation: a program for training lay christians in ministering to the dying and grieving

John Paul Cameron

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A comforting congregation: a program for training lay christians in ministering to the dying and grieving

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John Paul Cameron. A Comforting Congregation: a Program for Training Lay Christians In Ministering to the Dying and Grieving. Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School. rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/90cee7a5-0017-4de3-b7a4-8ce72deb9a05.

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J. P. Cameron. A comforting congregation: a program for training lay christians in ministering to the dying and grieving. https://rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/90cee7a5-0017-4de3-b7a4-8ce72deb9a05

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John Paul Cameron. A Comforting Congregation: a Program for Training Lay Christians In Ministering to the Dying and Grieving. Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School. https://rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/90cee7a5-0017-4de3-b7a4-8ce72deb9a05.

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John Paul Cameron

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Abstract

This Thesis Project Report articulates a need for a lay ministry to dying and grieving persons and presents complete teaching plans and materials for a ten-session, sixteen hour program for training lay Christians in such a ministry through a variety of lectures, discussions, films, exercises, and visits with recently bereaved persons and a funeral home. It describes the selection of training groups from four different Protestant churches of various sizes, with a total of forty-one participants, uses five instruments to gather evaluative data on the effects of the training on the participants, presents and evaluates the results, and draws conclusions. The evaluative data includes opinion and feelings reported by the participants and their pastors, together with a pre and post questionnaire on attitudes and a report of the participants' involvement in such ministry in the year after training. The pre and post questionnaire showed several changes in the participants' understandings of how people respond to terminal illness, death, and grief, and in participants' attitudes about their own deaths. Participants rated the overall helpfulness of the training program.

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