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Pastoral care

Tuesday June 28

Skills for Pastoral Care (LAB 1)

Fri 29 Jul 2022 9:00am Sun 14 Aug 2022 4:00pm

The Parish of Aspley-Albany Creek
Church Hall
30 Ridley Road
Bridgeman Downs Qld 4034

Held over six days in July–August 2022, this interactive course designed by Queensland Churches Together will equip you with knowledge and skills to listen well and show care to others in pastoral conversations. Friday 29 July and Saturday 30 July, 9 am – 5 pm; Sunday 31 July, 1–4 pm; Friday 12 August and Saturday 13 August, 9 am – 5 pm; Sunday 14 August, 1–4 pm. See more.

Spiritual and Pastoral Care Coordinator joins the Anglicare team

Parish of Algester Churchwarden Rhonda Nelson has joined the Anglicare team as a Spiritual and Pastoral Care Coordinator in the Logan Community Aged and Disability Services

"Over the last 18 months, workers and volunteers, both ordained and lay, have dedicated themselves to helping people journey through COVID-tide, just as health workers have committed themselves to providing medical care to those who contract the virus" (The Rev'd Dr Imelda O’Loughlin )

Journeying with people during the ongoing COVID-tide

“In the ongoing COVID-19 environment, it would be easy to push ourselves beyond our limits and dismiss our own wellbeing, overcommitting without realising that we are using our personal survival resources at a rapid rate. So how do we effectively pastorally care for others while ensuring our own self-care?” asks The Rev’d Dr Imelda O’Loughlin

Serving on the Victorian bushfire frontlines

“During our three weeks away in the Victorian Alps, Robyne did great work…visiting very frightened residents, and I conducted many services…including a funeral at Mount Beauty, which we had to do in the pub,” says The Rev’d Ian Bailey on his recent service trip during the bushfire crisis

The Rev’d Canon Dr Marian Free reflects on 25 years since ordination

When The Rev’d Canon Dr Marian Free felt God calling her to the priesthood in the early 1980s, women could not be ordained in the Anglican Church in Australia. Despite this obstacle, she held fast to her call and mission, becoming a founding member of the Movement for the Ordination of Women in Brisbane

Anglican and Catholic Churches testify before euthanasia inquiry

Last Friday, Archbishop Phillip Aspinall was joined by the Anglican Bishop for North Queensland, Bishop Keith Joseph, and the Catholic Archdiocese of Brisbane’s Archbishop Mark Coleridge, in advocating before the Queensland Parliamentary Committee Inquiry hearing into aged care, end-of-life and palliative care and voluntary assisted dying

Q&A with retiring Pastoral Care Coordinator, The Rev’d Ann Shepperson

Meet retiring Pastoral Care Coordinator for the Northern Region, The Rev’d Ann Shepperson, and find out about her ministry, favourite scriptures, travels, which person of faith inspires her most and her future plans