Out of the Depths: Your Companion After Divorce - Softcover

McDow, Mandy Sloan; Sharpe, W. Neil

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1501881345 ISBN 13: 9781501881343

Publisher: Abingdon Press, 2019

Synopsis

The Out of the Depths series addresses common pastoral crises in a faithful, encouraging, and factual manner that provides support to parishioners in crisis beyond the initial pastoral conversation. These inexpensive 64-page booklets can be given out to parishioners when they bring their recent diagnosis, crisis, or trauma to the pastor as a way to continue to provide care throughout the difficult season. Each booklet begins with a thoughtful consideration of the topic at hand, which is followed up by 30 brief devotions. These devotions are designed to be manageable in an overwhelming time, encouraging, and honest. The Out of the Depths booklets are essential care resources to be given out by pastors, Stephen Ministers, and congregational care teams.

Key Features:

• Written by metal health professionals and pastors to help the reader process their trauma both psychologically and theologically.
• Includes accessible material describing the dynamics of the crisis situation and typical reactions, which provides the reader with a sense of grounding and direction through increased knowledge.
• The thirty short devotions creates a sense of companionship and hope in a difficult and lonely time.
• Knowing they are sharing a resource written by mental health professionals and pastors with personal experience provides pastors a trustworthy source of information.
• Easy for pastors/churches to keep in stock and distribute as needed, serves as a tangible reminder of the faith community’s care.

About this title

About the Author:

Mandy McDow is a graduate of Oglethorpe University in Atlanta and Princeton Theological Seminary. She and her three children live in Los Angeles, where she is the senior pastor at Los Angeles First United Methodist Church in the heart of downtown.

Neil Sharpe is a licensed marriage and family therapist who specializes in healing relationships, divorce adjustment, and helping others manage anxiety, grief, and trauma. Neil and his wife, Sally, life in Mount Juliet, Tennessee, and have two grown daughters. 

About this edition

• Publisher: Abingdon Press
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1501881345
• ISBN 13: 9781501881343
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 64