Stephen Ministry

Stephen Ministers are members of SRVUMC who have gone through 50 hours of training in providing high-quality Christian care to individuals experiencing as crisis or challenge such as divorce, grief, loss of a job, hospitalization, relocation, loneliness, etc. Stephen Ministers are not therapists, but are persons with special gifts for caring ministry who can use those gifts to bring love and support too people in need. Stephen Ministers are each assigned as care receiver and meet with that care receiver for about an hour as week. This caring relationship will last for as long as the care receiver needs it.

Contact: Ron Dunn, 925-837-5243 or Shirley Stephenson, 925-820-0513 to request a Stephen Minister. To learn more about becoming a part of the Stephen Minister Team, contact Stephen Ministry Leader Barb McWilliams, 925-837-0971 or Horace Crawford, 925-937-8330.