Comprehensive training for those called to lead issue-focused care groups... Part A: Softcover: 8.5x11" perfect bound, 240 pages Part B: Softcover: 8.5x11" perfect bound, 140 pages 2 CDs (Windows) with Interactive Training and Computer-Scored Assessments List Price: $79.95 USD as low as $30 per 2-book/2-CD set ISBN 13: 978-1-935175-11-7/978-1-935175-12-4 If you are called to serve as a care minister in a church or para-church ministry setting, the Shepherding Care Groups comprehensive interactive training program will equip you to lead (shepherd) dynamic life-changing care groups through which our Lord heal life's hurts with grace and truth. Shepherding Care Groups: A Comprehensive Training & Certification Program for Christian Care Group Leaders was designed to equip those who sense the Lord’s call to serve in care ministry with the essential knowledge and skills needed to effectively lead, guide, and facilitate care groups in church and para-church settings. Those who complete the course and pass the end-of-module assessments (in the interactive computer-based course-on-disc) will earn a Certificate of Achievement for successfully com­pleting the Shepherding Care Groups Training Program. Certified care group shepherds meet the basic knowledge requirements for serving as small group leaders, care/support group facilitators, and small group coaches. The course is divided into two main parts: Part A is All About Care Groups Part A of the training course covers everything from the qualities needed to effectively lead care groups to the nuts-and-bolts of “staging” groups through managing crises, resolving conflict, and bringing a group to a grace­full end. Module 1: Care Group Shepherd: Is this the ministry for me? Module 2: Why care groups? Small group care ministry Module 3: Care group ministry: Vision, mission, and values Module 4: The nuts and bolts: How to stage a care group Module 5: Small group dynamics: The care group life-cycle Module 6: On your mark…get set…go! The first group meeting Module 7: Your staff, sir or madam: Leader-sheep skills 101 Module 8: When the going gets tough: How to manage conflict and crisis Module 9: All’s well that ends well: How to end a care group Part B is All About Caregiving Part B of the training course presents the C-A-R-E (Contact-Attend-Respond-Encourage) helping model that works in both one-on-one and group helping formats. If you have always suspected that the people-helping process is mysterious and complicated, the C-A-R-E model will change your mind! Introduction: The C-A-R-E Helping Model Module 1: Contact with Christian Compassion Module 2: Attend with Agape Love Module 3: Respond with Revealed Truth Module 4: Exhort to Care for Others Practice: C-A-R-E Model Exercises Covers crisis management strategies that can reduce risk and prevent potential liability! About the Author Scott Philip Stewart, Ph.D. Scott Philip Stewart, founder of CarePoint Ministries, holds degrees in theology, counseling psychology, and human development. A licensed mental health pro in agency and private practice settings for many years, Stewart’s burning passion is to see local churches stop outsourcing care by equipping them to heed the Apostle Paul’s directive to “bear one another’s burdens” (Galatians 6:2). Stewart lives in Atlanta with his dear wife and amazing sons.

Care group ministry... A care group is a special type of small group. It is a Christ-centered group whose purpose is to provide Christian care, support, and encouragement to those facing the same life-challenge. Care groups are not merely "support" groups, however. They are small groups of believers who are facing a trial or tribulation (such as depression, grief, guilt and shame, abuse, fear, anger) and who meet with Christ in their midst (as He promised to be) to find healing in Christ's grace and truth.  Order Shepherding Care Groups Training Program 1-set pack (2 book-2 CD interactive training): $49.95 Volume Discounts! 3-set pack: $99.00 (33% discount or buy 2 get 1 free) 5-set pack: $165.00 (35% discount) 10-set pack: $300.00 (40% discount) Training Pack Options 1-Training Program $49.95 USD 3-Training Programs $99.00 USD 5-Training Programs $165.00 USD 10-Training Programs $300.00 USD  Questions or Concerns? If you need training but simply cannot afford to purchase the program at full price, please contact us to see if there is a way that we can further discount the training for you. In other words, we do not want money to be the only reason you do not get trained to help those you can who are hurting. We invite you to call upon us at any time. Click here to see the contact information and online form.

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