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Areas of stress in the ministry are compared with those in the other professions. After noting the similarities and outlining some of the unique areas of need in the ministerial profession, the author discusses some basic presuppositions about appropriate career support models. The specifics of one such judicatory support system are outlined briefly and are related to the specific needs discussed earlier. A plea is made for greater investment in pastoral care for pastors as a means of supporting effective ministry as well as of meeting the legitimate needs of the pastors.
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Presented as an interconference committee report to the Boards of Ministry of the Kansas East and Kansas West Annual Conferences (United Methodist Church) in January of 1968. The report was informal and unpublished.
Survey of Pastoral Care and Counseling Services of 32 Areas of the United Methodist Church, collated by Bishop Edward G. Carroll and Bishop Lance Webb, fall of 1973. The informal report was made available to the Council of Bishops and to a limited number of ministers engaged in pastoral care of the ministry.
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Prior to that time, he worked as a hospital chaplain-supervisor and for fourteen years was Professor of Pastoral Care and Counseling at the St. Paul School of Theology, Kansas City, Missouri.
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Houts, D.C. Pastoral care for pastors: Toward a church strategy. Pastoral Psychol 25, 186–196 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01759747
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