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Counseling and Pastoral Care Min.

The Counseling Ministry exists to provide Christian Counseling, Pastoral Care, and a wide range of ministry support fo-
cusing on improving and maintaining a healthy physical, emotionally sound, and spiritually based Christian lifestyle. This
ministry incorporates Divorce Care for adults and children, Prison Ministry, Senior Adult Ministry, and First Time Visitors
Fellowship.

We are thankful that our God continue to do wonders even in the midst of Covid. Our ministries are
slowly returning to normal after the pandemic. God has truly moved in mysterious ways his wonders
to perform. Below is an account of our ministry activities during the past year.

Prison Ministry: Lay Leader: Rev. Anthony Wilkins

The team resumed visiting the prisons weekly in person in the Fall of 2021.

Counseling: Conducted 525 sessions of counseling via phone, zoom and in person

Pastoral Care:

• Made 70 home/hospital visits | Officiated 8 weddings | Issued 10 Premarital Certificates

• Officiated and attended 16 funerals | Provided 9 Repass meals | 3 Baby Dedications

GriefShare: Lay Leaders: Toni Kincaid, Linda Foreman and Roger Walton

• Group met in Fall and Spring via zoom on Sundays at noon | Group averaged 10 in attendance

Divorce Care: Neacy Turner and Anita Moss

• Group met on Sundays via zoom at noon.

• The group met in Fall and Spring averaging 7 in attendance | Ended the Fall Semester with a
Christmas Fellowship in room 160.

• We had a Farewell Fellowship for Anita Moss on August 14 at Spear time Lanes in Arlington.

Senior Adults Ministry: Lay Leader: Earnestine Shealey

Thanksgiving Fellowship was held on November 21, 2021
Christmas Fellowship was held on December 21, 2021
Valentine’s Fellowship was help on February 11, 2022

Easter Prayer Breakfast was held on Holy Thursday
Annual Picnic was Held on May 22, 2022
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Celebrated Juneteenth and July 4
Sandra Green and Gwen Newsome did presentation on the Wealth Gap in April 2022
Currently planning for trip to Antigua in June 2023

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