Sentences with phrase «trained laymen»

New groups are led by carefully trained laymen with previous koinonia group experience.

Provide a telephone referral service if none exists in the community, or a crisis counseling phone service staffed by trained laymen backed up by professionals.

Trained laymen can be of practical and emotional help to the family of those hospitalized for mental or physical illness.

With earlier releases from treatment facilities, a few churches and temples are responding to the need for after - care by sponsoring halfway houses staffed by trained laymen.

He is the key man in inspiring and training laymen for this ministry.

The challenge of our day is for the pastor to see his job as enabler and to begin to train laymen for the more challenging task of community mental health workers.

Both interpersonal relationship marathons and urban «plunges» (a weekend in the ghetto) increase group cohesiveness dramatically in training laymen for social action.

It had the strength, however, of tapping highly qualified professionals for the training, and of training laymen alongside clergymen for the work of hospital visitation and mental health aid.

The challenge of our day, however, is for the pastor to see his job as enabler and to begin to train laymen for the more challenging task of community mental health workers.

What has been lacking has been some concerted effort to train laymen in the pastoral care of souls, to enlist them in the mental health movement on a par with the clergy, and to use the church effectively as an arm of the community.

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They realize that they have not been trained to communicate with laymen.

If the future Church is to have laymen who cooperate responsibly in the tasks of the Church, then surely it is time to begin to train them and to give them a share in the decisions of the Church, even if the administration would function more smoothly without them.

H. Ability to establish and maintain training programs for clergy and laymen in religion and mental health including, where appropriate, accredited clinical pastoral education programs through the possession of educational and supervisory skills.

Recruit and train a pastoral care team of sensitive laymen to work with the clergyman in supporting persons going through difficulties in living.

Research into the role of the churches in community mental health may take two directions: (1) statistical studies, empirically designed, as to the effect of religious beliefs, membership in, and activities of, members of churches and synagogues, and (2) the effects of training in mental health principles and skills of clergymen and laymen in improving their effectiveness in religious behavior.

Caring teams of laymen can best be trained in growth - action groups.

A layman should encourage his minister's desire to take additional clinical and academic training in pastoral counseling.

The committee which interviews candidates should be composed of the most perceptive laymen in a church, including, if available, persons trained in interpersonal sensitivities.

Such a team consists of a carefully selected and trained group of laymen including a stable A.A. member and an Al - Anon member, a lawyer, a physician, and other intelligent, warmhearted persons with a dedication to following the Great Physician.

The Council holds workshops for parents, couples, single people, and young people; helps to develop local community leaders; provides training in counseling for ministers and qualified laymen; and serves in an advisory capacity to the neighborhood educational system.

«What is needed is for churches to devise imaginative ways of getting more of the hundreds of thousands of dedicated laymen directly involved as trained volunteers in projects to deal with all kinds of personal and social problems, including alcoholism.

Frequently these groups are led by spiritually mature laymen who have had special training and preparation, including extensive small group experience.

In such projects, it is important to train a group of laymen within the church for the various roles which they may fill.

There are three stages by which a congregation develops and employs a central core of laymen for this task — calling, training, and deployment.

The Y's engaged in many activities including social service and humanitarian work, evangelism of an interdenominational sort, the training of laymen for such work, and activities designed to appeal especially to young men and women.

It needs laymen who are called by God for the purpose, trained with all the wisdom and sophistication experience can give, and who are willing to take the risks of using the forms of power available to them to do the works of love.

preacherlady said to Steve: According to your website you're a layman... are you in an eldership or counselling position?Do you have training as to how to minister to people or do you just take it upon yourself to tell people of their sins?

Training groups in twenty - eight churches constituted «Project Laity,» designed to help laymen become more involved in the structures and decisions of their communities.

«Project Understanding» was a two - year effort by teams of theological students, laymen, and clergymen to devise methods for reducing White racism in suburban congregations.4 The training of participants included plunges into the inner city and encounters with Black and Brown rage.

(d) Education and Training — in such areas as continuing education for local clergy, in - service staff training, clinical pastoral education by qualified supervisors, and educating of clergy and laymen in programs of positive mentalTraining — in such areas as continuing education for local clergy, in - service staff training, clinical pastoral education by qualified supervisors, and educating of clergy and laymen in programs of positive mentaltraining, clinical pastoral education by qualified supervisors, and educating of clergy and laymen in programs of positive mental health.

Unfortunately, parochial endeavors, lack of concern, and insufficient training have militated against laymen getting involved in this most important work.

There are laymen who undergo certain basic training in guidance of potentially suicidal persons.

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Laymen are not only capable of becoming mental health aides; they can serve as volunteers and do the housekeeping chores, so that their pastor might receive clinical training and become more professionally qualified.

Ackerman and his supervisors, Dr. Bruder and Dr. Ward, decided that laymen should not have a different course but should be included in the same course and given all the training pastors receive.

While tone is the layman's term for building lean muscle (while still losing body fat) to show off a killer physique, participating in resistance training even at a minimum has a range of health benefits beyond what you see in the mirror.

In layman's terms, if your technique is spot on and you train with focus and intensity, you can make light weights do the work of heavy ones.

Foam rollers are commonly used both before and after a workout, but laymen's literature claims that SMR before a workout allows an athlete to increase his or her volume of training and decrease dysfunctions resulting from microtrauma without the cost of hiring a professional (5,9).

The goal of the priesthood was to provide a group of people trained in the teaches of the church and its holy fathers, who could disseminate the message to the laymen.

By virtue of their training, such experts would be able to distinguish parts of letters or techniques of word formation which a layman would be unable to observe.

Laws that govern compensation in a wide variety of cases are complex, far beyond the average layman's training or education, no matter how many episodes of legal dramas you have watched!

- Compassionate personal service skills to explain complicated medical jargon in layman terms and to make individuals feel at ease when getting potentially difficult news - Critical thinking skills to weigh symptoms and determine what a patient most likely is suffering from - Familiarity with medical software such as Bizmatics PrognoCIS EMR, Kareo Practice Management, and many others - Keen managerial skills to utilize everyone's talents to their fullest potential - Ability to train others in specialized tasks

My expertise in all levels of technical and mechanical engineering in addition to the ability to translate complex analysis into layman's terms has provided superior training and support for corporations.

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The Court also noted that in general terms, a layman is practicing law if difficult or doubtful legal questions are involved, which, to safeguard the public, reasonably demand the application of a trained legal mind.