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Planned pastoral home visitation: a survey of present practices with recommended strategies

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Hennessey, Joseph. Planned Pastoral Home Visitation: a Survey of Present Practices with Recommended Strategies. rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/9bdcf7ac-c5a8-4f12-9bb7-cf9ac7c9bbd4.

APA citation style (7th ed.)

H. Joseph. Planned pastoral home visitation: a survey of present practices with recommended strategies. https://rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/9bdcf7ac-c5a8-4f12-9bb7-cf9ac7c9bbd4

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Hennessey, Joseph. Planned Pastoral Home Visitation: a Survey of Present Practices with Recommended Strategies. https://rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/9bdcf7ac-c5a8-4f12-9bb7-cf9ac7c9bbd4.

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  • The question upon which this project is founded is “to understand and describe the relationship, if any, between the practice of regular home visitations and active and inactive congregations and to recommend appropriate strategies of visitation.” To accomplish this, I have initially prepared and utilized a questionnaire which was circulated among ministers of two conferences of the United Church of Christ. The information from these questionnaires was then coded and processed through the data processing facilities of Penn State University and the University of Michigan under the supervision of Dr. Loyde Hartley of Lancaster Theological Seminary. The information gleaned from this effort has become the basis for Chapter Two, which is a discussion of where pastors are today in regards to the practice of home visitations, to endeavor to note the effects of that practice on congregational life and finally to bring together any helpful strategies they presently are using in this regard. In doing the latter, the project placed these present-day pastors in the midst of the ongoing forensic, which has been taking place in relation to the practice of home visitations over the last seventy or more years, which is the subject for discussion in Chapter One. That chapter endeavors to show that there is (and it may be that there has always been) a continuing significant undercurrent and resurgence of increased interest in this matter with the profession in recent years. Finally, Chapter Three attempts to set forth an overall strategy for home visitations, using my own approach as a kind of structure, enlarging upon and firming that design with the insights of prominent practical theologians who have written on the subject throughout the same seventy or more years mentioned above, as well as the data discussed in Chapter Two. Finally, the research recommends certain directions for continued study. It may be helpful for me to acknowledge that this project, as it has been carried out, has been pursued primarily in terms of visitation as a function of the professional pastor.
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  • 12/18/2025

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