PC131 Shepherding Women
Overview
Bev Hislop provides strategies to enhance pastoral care to women. The course examines the biblical portrayal of women, considers the effect of physiological and psychological differences between men and women on pastoral care, and offers a profile of effective shepherding of women.
Top Highlights
“Effective pastoral care to women provides a safe place for Carol to feel the pain before she’s ready to think about the next step of her life. Once she’s in a safe place and stabilized emotionally, she can think more clearly. Shepherds understand it will take time and multiple resources to bring Carol to a place of health.” (source)
“Do you recall Isaiah 66:13, where God says, ‘As a mother comforts her child, so I will comfort you?’ Isaiah 49:15: ‘Can a mother forget the baby at her breast and have no compassion on the child she has borne?’ This is God speaking: ‘Though she may forget, I will not forget you.’” (source)
“Secondly, [we need] to step away from the trend that sees progress as eliminating the differences between the sexes, and instead find ways to embrace those differences.” (source)
“A patient who’s bleeding profusely cannot receive instruction on how the accident might have been prevented. Too often we start with preventative instruction and in long term directives, such as: memorize scripture, study the Bible more, and pray more. Now, these are valuable and needful, but not timely when the patient is bleeding emotionally, panic-stricken, or confused. It can sound to them like we’re saying, ‘Just get over it! Stop the tears, move on—it’s not that bad!” (source)
“A shepherd’s primary role in shepherding women is to put the wounded woman’s hand into the hand of the Good Shepherd. This may at first involve being His hands and feet to the wounded woman. It may involve playing the music of the Gospel before saying the words, but the ultimate desire is to see the woman become a healthy reproducing disciple of Jesus Christ.” (source)
- Title: PC131 Shepherding Women
- Author: Beverly Hislop
- Series: Logos Mobile Education
- Publisher: Lexham Press
- Print Publication Date: 2014
- Logos Release Date: 2014
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Courseware
- Subjects: Church work with women; Education › Church work with women; Pastoral care
- Resource ID: LLS:PC131HISLOP
- Resource Type: Courseware Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-02-12T05:02:09Z
Dr. Bev Hislop teaches courses on pastoral care to women in the Master of Arts in Ministry and Leadership—with a Pastoral Care to Women concentration—at Western Seminary in Portland, San Jose, and Sacramento. She also served on the board of Network for Women in Leadership, and has been involved in women’s ministries for over 30 years.
She founded the Women’s Center for Ministry at Western Seminary in Portland in 1996, and established the unique Pastoral Care to Women (PCW) programs and courses offered at Western Seminary.
Previously, Dr. Hislop developed and taught a women’s ministry module at Moody Bible Institute in South Florida, established and directed women’s ministries in five churches (on both west and east coasts of America, and overseas), and hosted a weekly radio program, Western Connection for Women, for women in ministry and ministry wives. She also established a ministry just for pastors’ wives.
Dr. Hislop’s newest book, Shepherding Women in Pain, is a vital resource for pastors, women’s ministry directors, and all who have a heart for helping hurting women. Dr. Hislop is also the author of Shepherding a Woman's Heart, and was a major contributing author to the Women's Ministry Handbook.
Dr. Hislop and her husband, Jim, have two married children and six living grandchildren.