Bethany Christian Church Care Team

The Bethany Care Team Ministry is a contact ministry, designed to maintain contact with all the folks who attend Bethany.

The Care Team maintains a congregational contact and special needs ministry for Bethany members.  The program thrives by continually updating the all member contact list (with phone numbers), meeting monthly for review of special needs and for prayer, keeping individual contact with all Bethany members and all friends of Bethany who’ve recently attended, and referring special needs to the pastor and elders for care action.

Nine Care Team members each take the responsibility for staying in contact with up to ten Bethany households that are assigned to them. Contact is made in worship, at other church functions, or by telephone.

Once a month, the Care Team meets to:

1. Review needs and special needs of those attending Bethany.
2. Share prayer concerns for Bethany members and friends.
3. Review and update the Bethany Prayer Request List (that is published in the Sunday bulletin and the Journey newsletter).
4. Pray for those whose names are on the prayer list.

Information shared in the Care Team setting is kept confidential.

Two questions are frequently asked about the Care Team:

1. Where did it get its name?
   We think it was from Disciple evangelist Herb Miller, from whom the Bethany elders developed the contact ministry model a number of years ago.
   
2. Why aren’t the Care Team and calling chain folks the same people?
   Two reasons: 1) the two ministries require different skills and individual preference for ministry, and 2) with two separate groups, more folks have opportunity for participation in Bethany ministry.