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Our Philosophy

• It has always been part of the ministry of the Church to offer pastoral care, both within the Church and in the general community. Christian philosophy has much to offer to the debate concerning human functioning: "Why people have problems?" and "How they can develop and change?"
  
  
• As people receive insights and healing from counselling, they then need a supportive community in which to grow and develop. The Church can be such a community.
  
  
• A counselling service closely associated with Church helps to build individual lives, as well as build Church and fellowship. A positive association between good counsel and Church portrays Church as a vibrant, nurturing, honest, environment. Para-Church services can subtly suggest the opposite: that Church is impotent, redundant, and irrelevant to the needs of its members.
  
  
• A counselling service closely associated with Church needs rigorous boundaries of confidentiality and trustworthiness. People will not trust the service and use it fully if they fear material disclosed will be passed on to others within the Church community.
  
  
• The relationship between the counselling service and Church can be creative. Insights from counselling can be developed into discipleship programmes, and form the basis of educative community groups.
  
  
• Groups focusing on such issues as stress, self-image, assertion, anger-management can run within the Church and the wider community, for both Christians, and those with a different faith or no religious background.

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