7 ways to champion girls in your youth ministry
17 March, 2025
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Grace reflects on why girls aren’t coming to youth group as much as they used to and offers practical advice for what we could about it.
Finding Comfort & Joy This Season
16 December, 2024
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Amy Yeung shares about the comfort we can find in the midst of a busy and sometimes difficult Christmas season.
12 tips to support someone experiencing mental health challenges
14 February, 2024
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How can we support someone experiencing mental health challenges? Here are 12 tips from Rev. Dr Keith Condie to help you respond wisely and with care.
How to help others without owning their problems
18 September, 2023
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We are all human and our strength and capabilities have an upper limit. How can we devote ourselves fully in serving the Lord and caring for others without wearing ourselves out?
Understanding Bipolar Part 3 – Caring for someone with bipolar
15 May, 2023
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Lily Strachan serves as a chaplain to Robert Menzies College at Macquarie University. She was a fellow with Anglican Deaconess Ministries (ADM) in 2021 and is completing a book on living with bipolar and loving those who do. In this third article, Lily provides insights on how to care for someone with bipolar.
Pastoral Care and Sacrifice
6 March, 2023
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The question for us as pastoral carers is whether Jesus saw any other significance in laying down his life for the sheep. And consequently, is there a type of sacrifice which Jesus calls his followers in pastoral care to make?
Eight ways to care for survivors of natural disasters
25 November, 2022
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Natural disasters traumatic events. The threat to (or loss of) life, property, livestock and livelihoods that often accompany these events can be extremely distressing, made
Pastoral Care and the Knowledge of God
18 July, 2022
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Jesus casts a compelling vision of care in John chapter 10. In a world filled with strangers, thieves and robbers, where wolves abound, there is
To be a friend in the dust
23 May, 2022
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The news anchor warned me that the story would be disturbing. It opened on a three-year-old Ukrainian boy lying in a hospital bed, connected by
The Origins of Care
17 May, 2022
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It might seem strange to dedicate a blog to this topic, but indulge me for a few moments. We live in a culture that assumes,
Psalms in the pastoral care toolbox
20 July, 2021
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“The delightful study of the Psalms has yielded me boundless profit and ever-growing pleasure….” – CH Spurgeon The book of Psalms are a blessing to every believer.
The provision of Christian Soul Care
3 September, 2019
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Ministry of care is a unique calling and privilege, yet very often we can be unsure how to approach this compassionate care. With pastoral experience
