by Dorie | Nov 15, 2018 | Care Ministry Response
Let’s face it, people are tired of the phrase: “thoughts and prayers”. You could even say, many in our country are expressing “thoughts-and-prayers-fatigue”. After the school shooting in Parkland, FL (Feb, 2018), students began screaming,...
by Dorie | Sep 10, 2018 | Care Ministry Response
I’d like you to do a thought experiment with me: imagine sitting at your desk (or stuck in traffic or grabbing take-out before heading home) and the phone rings. Before you answer it, I’d like you to think of the worst possible scenario that could be...
by Dorie | Oct 31, 2017 | Care Ministry Response
I read a workbook once that quickly outlined the ā6 Aāsā every child needs. The list was pushed to the bottom of the page and rarely referenced again. The workbook was about surviving emotional abuse ā something I work with quite a lot. I thumbed through the pages...
by Dorie | Apr 23, 2013 | Care Ministry Response
Instead of being perceived as a story of suffering and patience, what if we viewed the Book of Job through the lens of crisis and crisis response. We know one “factor” that makes a critical incident a crisis is expectancy, or the lack thereof. The...