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What is CareLeader.org?

Moses’ father-in-law said to him, ‘What you are doing is not good. You and the people with you will certainly wear yourselves out, for the thing is too heavy for you. You are not able to do it alone’” (Exod. 18:17–18 ESV).

If you enjoy pastoral care, or you struggle with it, you weren’t designed to do it alone (Eph. 4:11–12).

But realizing that doesn’t make your pastoral care responsibilities go away. And that’s why we created CareLeader.org.

What is CareLeader.org?

Think of the CareLeader website as your digital Jethro—helping you provide skillful and strategic pastoral care, while preventing you from burning out. We’ll show you how to equip the leaders in your church to provide effective care ministry, plus we’ll share pastoral care insights that have application for your:

  • Preaching
  • Counseling
  • Lay leader training
  • Care ministry event planning

Who is CareLeader.org for?

CareLeader is designed to help you whether you’re:

  • Skilled at pastoral care
  • Not gifted at pastoral care
  • Curious about pastoral care, or …
  • Overwhelmed by pastoral care

How will CareLeader.org help you?

If you visit this site once or twice a week, in time you’ll discover how to:

  • Communicate more effectively in your preaching and counseling with people who are hurting
  • Provide better-quality pastoral care to your congregation
  • Become an even more effective servant leader
  • Reduce your stress and workload by equipping lay leaders to offer informed care
  • Implement outreach strategies that consistently draw hurting people to your church

A little background on your new father-in-law …

CareLeader is a ministry of Church Initiative. Church Initiative is a nonprofit, church-equipping ministry based in Wake Forest, NC. Its mission is to equip churches to help people who are hurting.

Over the past twenty-five years, Church Initiative has created resources like DivorceCare, GriefShare, DivorceCare for Kids, Single & Parenting, and other ministry tools. These programs are in 25,000 churches around the world. In the course of creating those resources, Church Initiative has interviewed hundreds of pastors, counselors, psychologists, and other ministry professionals, as well as hundreds of people who’ve suffered various losses and dealt with intense struggles. Our team also has decades of experience training and supporting church leaders who offer our care ministry programs.

The CareLeader website draws pastoral care insights from Church Initiative’s archives and experience and shares them with you. Plus, many of those we’ve interviewed have volunteered to contribute regularly to the CareLeader.org. So the CareLeader website draws from a deep and diverse well of pastoral care wisdom to help you in your role as a pastor

So take the time to get to know your new father-in-law. He’s here to help.

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GriefShare equips lay people to care for grieving people

GriefShare is a powerful, Christ-centered grief recovery program. Created by the team that produces CareLeader.org, GriefShare features many of the experts who contribute to the CareLeader website. It also features the stories of over 75 everyday people who’ve applied biblical principles to heal from grief. Visit GriefShare.org/start and see more reasons why thousands of churches use GriefShare. And discover how GriefShare can equip your church to launch and sustain a proven care and outreach ministry.

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How would you help them?

A woman wrestling with depression. A grieving teen. An anxious wife. A man battling chronic anger. Would you know how to minister to them?

Discover how CareLeader.org can help you provide biblical and compassionate pastoral care for struggling and hurting people in your church.

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We equip and inspire pastors and senior church leaders to provide strategic, real-world pastoral care, by delivering practical, biblically based encouragement and insights that have application for preaching, counseling, visitation, lay leader training, and outreach planning.

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  • About
    • What is CareLeader.org?
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Categories

  • About
  • Addiction
  • All Posts
  • Boomers and senior adults
  • Care Issues
  • Emotional & mental health
    • Discouragement & regret
    • Suicide & self-harm
    • Worry & anxiety
  • Equipping leaders
    • Care & counsel
    • Ministry startup
  • In This Together
  • Marriage & other relationships
    • Communication
    • Conflict
    • Infidelity, unfaithful spouse
    • Premarital counseling
  • Misc
    • Job & finances
  • Parenting
    • Single parents
  • Pastor's issues
    • Care ministry administration
    • Counseling & teaching
    • Emotions
    • Encouraging others
    • Work/life balance
  • Sexual issues
    • Abuse
    • Same-sex attraction
  • Suffering & Grief
    • Racism
  • Theology of pastoral care
  • Top posts

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