MinistryCare
Soul Care Support for You & Your Team
Receive soul care support from mental health clinicians
Maintain wholeness and balance in your life and ministry work
Monthly interactive sessions offered remotely
Join the Beta Group
Who Pastors the Pastor?
MinistryCare is a new service designed for church and ministry leaders to receive non-diagnostic soul care support from mental health clinicians and maintain wholeness and equilibrium in their life and work. These sessions serve as consistent checkpoints for healthy soul care.
Emerge is launching a six-month Beta Period of MinistryCare to begin in September 2024. We are currently recruiting church leaders, staff members, and missionaries to participate in this first group and receive at least one MinistryCare session per month.
A regular “checkpoint” for healthy soul care practice in ministry and the cultivation of wholeness in living.
A place to slow down and order our time, desires, and thoughts to counteract selfishness, impulsiveness, or hurried fogginess of mind.
Provided by a team of licensed mental health professionals who are “established” in their faith journey.
Focused on soul strength and growth to support the journey of living a life of faith from the heart.
Different from counseling, MinistryCare sessions provide soul support rather than a clinical diagnosis.
Benefits of Counseling + MinistryCare
How MinistryCare is Different
While counseling at Emerge focuses on the healing of the soul, MinistryCare will focus on the maintenance of the soul. Below is a side-by-side comparison to explore the benefits of each and the unique role they play in mental health and soul care.
Counseling
MinistryCare
Provides clinical diagnoses & remedies
Provides personal soul support for living
Involves tests, inventories, & evaluations
Involves “check-in points” & affirmation
Charts conflicts & challenges in one’s life
Charts God’s presence at work in your life story
Detects mental health challenges
Discovers personal potential and soul care
Engages disequilibrium in life
Helps maintain equilibrium in life
Addresses the healing of soul wounds
Focuses on the pursuit of wholeness
Includes corrective steps
Includes preventative steps
Interested in joining the Beta Group or learning more about MinistryCare?
Common Questions
What are the MinistryCare sessions like?
During a MinistryCare session, you will remotely interact with a licensed clinician from Emerge in a private and anonymous setting with a focus of providing a safe space. A screener from Emerge will help assign clients to an appropriate clinician.
During the Beta Period, clients will be asked to complete a few brief anonymous surveys that will assist Emerge in continually improving this new service.
How many sessions will there be?
MinistryCare sessions will occur online once a month for each client with their assigned clinician. The Beta Period will run from September 2024 through February 2025. The plan is to continue and expand these services in March 2025.
What is the cost for MinistryCare?
Is there a deadline to join the Beta Group?
Learn More
Dr. Robert Crosby, President of Emerge, and Matthew Knabe, Director of Operations, share about the new and unique focus of MinistryCare and the needs it meets for ministry leaders across the country.
Get Started
Reserve your place in the Beta Group of Emerge’s inaugural MinistryCare by completing the form below. For additional questions, please contact ministrycare@emerge.org.
