Pastoral Care in an Interim Setting

Abstract

Pastoral care—caregiving—is probably the most important of all the ministries of a pastor. Every pastor knows the vital importance of care provided in times of crisis, serious illness or injury, and death. Such care, according to McGehee, is even more crucial in the interim situation. In addition to crisis ministry, the interim pastor is the primary care giver in the ordinary situations of ministry. He or she is to be the encourager, the enabler, the empowerer for the congregation.