At St. Gregory’s, pastoral care is the responsibility not of a single pastor, but of a healthy and mutually pastoring congregation. The work is largely peer-based, serving church members, visitors and the broader community under the leadership of staff pastors.
We offer practical, logistical support for patients and families during emergencies and illness; prayer, calls and pastoral presence during times of trouble or death; and spiritual and emotional support through individual and group meetings.  We visit homebound members, and those in hospital or hospice. We offer healing prayer, and coordinate ongoing support groups (for example, for the caregivers of aging parents) and special trainings (for example, on end-of-life issues.) Individuals are always welcome to make a time to talk one-on-one, and our email list circulates requests for prayers and/or practical support. To see someone for pastoral care, get information on joining the work of pastoral care, or to join the pastoral care email list, contact us.

Praying and caring for one another, and for strangers, is at the heart of our community's spiritual life. We don’t do pastoral care with the expectation that we can fix all problems, cure illness or erase sorrow. Though we understand there are medical and psychological dimensions to pastoral care, we don’t pretend to be doctors or psychologists. Instead, we believe that by honestly accompanying one another through ordinary human joys and suffering, we will find more of God. Praying with others, sharing their grief and delight, asking for or giving practical help, opens us all to receive what Jesus calls "life, abundant.”

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