Pastoral Care

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Pastoral Care

At St Aldates, we strongly underline the importance of spiritual and emotional wholeness as a goal for all members of our church to embrace.

If you require pastoral support...

The first level of support that you should consider accessing comes from your leaders/fellow members of your St Aldates Small Group.

You can also, of course, always email a member of St Aldates’ clergy or the leadership team directly if you would like to request a one-off pastoral meeting. 

At times, you may want to request additional pastoral support. St Aldates can offer three further routes:

1. Pastoral Care Team: a meeting/s with a member of our Pastoral Care Team who will listen and pray for you. We can offer a maximum of 3-4 meetings of this kind. 

2. Signposting to relevant Outside Professional/s. If you are struggling with an issue requiring specialized support or professional expertise, we can provide you with details of outside counselors or agencies. Professionals working privately will require payment. We cannot be responsible for the quality of care provided by such individuals and services. 

3. Extended Prayer Ministry: a limited number of sessions with a member of our Prayer Ministry Team who can offer healing prayer for deeper issues.

To help us direct you to the most appropriate source of support, please complete and the form below and click 'send'.

Lena Harris, our Pastoral Care Co-Ordinator, will then make an assessment or invite you to an assessment meeting with herself and/or another member of the Pastoral Care Team. 

Following this, she will direct you, if appropriate, to one of the three routes above.

Please note that this pastoral support is available only for regular members of St Aldates Church. 

PASTORAL REQUEST FORM

Terms of Confidentiality (v1.01) 

Information that you share in pastoral meetings is confidential to the member of Clergy or Pastoral Care Co- Ordinator and Pastoral Team member. Having said that, there are limits to confidentiality. To help us make decisions about what we can offer you, Pastoral Team members may need to share information with each other.Additionally, the Senior Leadership Team will have access to summary information about who has been referred and which route of support has been offered. Occasionally information about the content of a pastoral conversation may need to be passed on if there is serious concern about risk of harm to yourself or a vulnerable other. For the purpose of safeguarding, Oxford Diocese requires us to keep summary notes of any pastoral meeting conducted. For further detail about St Aldates’ privacy policy, please see staldates.org.uk/privacy






1.Briefly about the concerns that you would like to address:



2.How long have you been worshipping at St Aldates?



3. Do you belong to a Small Group at St Aldates?



4. Have you sought help from anyone else at St Aldates about this or any other pastoral concern?



5. Are you seeing anyone else professionally about this / these concern(s)?



6. Please can you give us, if willing, your mobile number.



7. Year of birth (We ask this for safeguarding purposes)



8. I have read and understood and agree to the above terms of confidentiality (v1.00)





When you return this form to us, you can expect to receive a reply within a week.

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