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CONTRIBUTIONS OF COMMUNION ECCLESIOLOGY TO THE COMMUNAL-CONTEXTUAL MODEL OF CARE

As part of my involvement in the life of my local congregation, I recently attended the first meeting of a newly constituted "Care Team." This committee, which is responsible for congregational care, is now under the leadership of two newer church members who had been recruited by the pastor to broaden the Care Team's vision of care while attending to its usual task of visiting homebound members. As the meeting progressed, we realized that team members had different pre-conceptions about the nature of pastoral care and those responsible for it. The team members who had been actively visiting the homebound for some time were quite comfortable with this limited role of assisting the pastor when needed. The newer members, on the other hand, wanted to create a community of care in which all members of the congregation shared primary responsibility of caring for each other. Expanding the work of the Care Team posed more than a modest challenge. Not only would we have to find ways to involve more members in the caring ministry of the congregation, but we would also have to examine our assumptions about pastoral care and move toward a shared vision before we could change our practices of care.