Hillvue Heights Church
A place to connect to Jesus
Pastoral Care
Many people interpret and/or place pastoral care in a box of pastoral counseling, patting people on the hand during visitation, and telling them that everything will be all right. Four historic functions of pastoral care consist of healing, sustaining, guiding, and reconciling. The New Testament calls us to pastoral care. When fully embraced, pastoral care is an evangelistic movement.
If you would like to learn more about the Pastoral Care Ministry here at Hillvue Heights Church, please feel free to contact Pastor Mark B. Hale at (270) 842-0012, ext. 102.
Discover the direction for loving and caring for people
Pastoral Care University
Pastoral Care University is a two-day seminar designed to inform, expose and initially equip lay people to administer care in a way that creates a more biblically sound portrait of a Christian community. During this seminar, people learn how to conduct themselves when administering care during transitional and crisis moments in the lives of fellow parishioners. This may include ministering to those who have lost loved ones, experienced divorce, or those who have loved ones in the nursing home or in the hospital. There is also an emphasis placed on how pastoral care can be a means for sharing the gospel with those who are not connected to a Christian community.
Graduates of Pastoral Care University are equipped with tools and skills necessary for learning effective ways to relate to those in need and, by extension, this contributes to the overall understanding that the church must be a relational community. Theologically, the focus of this seminar is helping people understand that all caring acts of compassion are a function of the indwelling Holy Spirit. When care is administered in the name of Jesus, it is the Holy Spirit released from within us that creates moments in which the grace of God becomes more evident. Pastoral Care University teaches participants that pastoral care is the very experience of the community of Christ and can no longer be seen as a department of the church or a ministry specialization reserved solely for clergy.
Through Pastoral Care University, people discover more detailed directions for how we can love and care for people in the name of Jesus.
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"The Pastoral Care Ministry is more than just people taking care of people; it's allowing people to realize that God will totally remake them. Pastoral Care Ministry at Hillvue Heights Church is more than a kind word. It is a kind action, it is a loving heart, and it is a response from a loving God that totally remakes our lives. Check it out, and you will learn that caring for the community of people that God has created will bring you to a full understanding that Jesus Christ is a God that remakes our lives."
Dr. Stephen L. Ayers
Lead Pastor
Pastoral Care University - "A Network of Spirit-Driven Care"
"My wife and I found Pastoral Care University to be a Biblically-based and very practical learning experience. Pastor Mark's passion to do and to live pastoral care is infectious! The connection that he made from the beginning of the class between evangelism and pastoral care sparked a greater urgency to do care giving in the name of Jesus. Pastor Mark's focus on recognizing the changing "landscapes" of human relationships revealed ways we can minister with grace in the midst of others' happiness and celebration, or hurt and despair. Whether you have known Christ a short or a long time, Pastoral Care University will open your eyes to the passion of Jesus to help and to heal."
Dr. John and Pam Hurtgen
Campbellsville Baptist Church
Campbellsville, KY