St. Luke’s Center for Counseling and Life Enrichment offers a variety of speakers that bring a diverse background of experience and specializations in the community to benefit the audience. These programs are free, topical and open to the community.
See a complete list of upcoming events.
Read about Maintaining Intimacy Through Communication, presented by David Moore
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Common Ground meetings offer caregivers a place and time to meet, talk share, learn, and receive the support needed to take care of themselves so that, in turn, they can provide the best possible care for family member or friend. The group meets the first Tuesday of every month from 10:30 a.m.-noon at St. Luke’s Center for Counseling and Life Enrichment. Common Ground is a program in partnership with Interfaith CarePartners. Meetings are facilitated by a licensed professional and lay co-facilitator with experience in caregiving. Common Ground is open to the community at no charge. For more information, contact the Counseling Center (713-402-5046). |
Stephen Ministry
 Stephen Ministry is a confidential, supervised, one-on-one caring ministry for those who need the loving support of a Christian friend. Stephen Ministers are lay people who receive 50 hours of training and who make a 2-year commitment to be available for 1 hour a week as needed for this ministry. If you would like to become a Stephen Minister or think you could benefit from one, please contact the Counseling Center (713-402-5046).
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From a Stephen Ministry care receiver:
"I contacted the church and requested a Stephen Minister. Asking for help was a major step for me and it was the beginning of God’s healing grace in my life. My Stephen Minister listened patiently as I poured out my pain and frustration. I knew I could trust her with my feelings. As she walked with me over a period of months, God healed my soul.”
From a Stephen Minister
“As a Stephen Minister, I can tell you that I've received 'seventy times seven' more than I have given. That is God's way. He is so generous when we turn our faces to Him. When we can bless others with our time, our energy, our compassion, God blesses us because we are in harmony with His purposes.”
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Divorce Recovery
This 4-week Divorce Recovery series at St. Luke's United Methodist Church is offered frequently and is led by Dr. Kelton Ro-Trock, licensed marriage and family therapist and ordained United Methodist minister. It is a small discussion group that meets for one hour each week and is designed to help people take positive steps toward healing and wholeness.
The next series of Divorce Recovery will meet Sundays June 7, 14, 21, and 28 from 9:45-10:45 a.m. in the Center for Counseling and Life Enrichment. The Center is located on the corner of Edloe and Kipling, across from the St. Luke's parking lot. There is no cost for this class and both members and non-members of the church are welcome. The class is limited in size, so registration is required.
For more information or to register for the next series of Divorce Recovery, please contact the Counseling Center (713-402-5046).
Mourning After Morning Grief Support
Have you experienced a loss in your life? Are you trying to deal with this stressful situation by yourself? Do you ever wonder what help the Bible can offer to help ease your pain? If you have had any of these thoughts then please come to Mourning After Morning. The purpose of our work together will be to journey through the “valley” by offering information and opportunity to grow through your grief and loss.
Topics for study and reflection will include: Who are you? Reflections about grief, realistic memories, identification of feelings, lifestyle changes, reaching out to others, and much more. All sessions will be biblically grounded.
Mourning After Morning, facilitated by St. Luke’s member Gayla Davis, is an on-going grief support group for anyone who has had a loss. Whether you have suffered a miscarriage, lost a spouse, a parent, a child, or someone else close to you, there is support for you.
If you have suffered a loss, please join Mourning After Morning from 12:15–2:30 p.m. in the St. Luke's Center for Counseling and Life Enrichment (located on the corner of Edloe and Kipling, across from the St. Luke's parking lot) every Sunday and begin your journey toward hope and healing. A sandwich lunch is offered for $5. For more information, please contact the Counseling Center (713-402-5046).
| "Although our society seeks to shield us from the stark reality of death and loss, it is prevalent all about us in nature and in human life. When anything is so common, many of us assume that the reaction to the loss will be quick, painless and uncomplicated. In some rare instances it is, but in most it is not. Increasingly we are aware of the fact that unwise handling of the grief situation is causing personality injury in ways that had not been suspected. Mutual support in the grief journey is one way to insure that our grief decisions are made based on information and thought." - Todd Van Beck |
CanCare
CanCare is a wonderful cancer ministry that is supported by St. Luke's with many other Houston churches. It offers hope and support to those experiencing the day-to-day struggles of cancer. CanCare is a faith-based local organization that attempts to match a newly diagnosed cancer patient with a trained survivor who can share experiences, offer information, resources and encouragement but also supports the person in a prayerful manner. Participants talk to others who have survived the same type of cancer, diagnosis and treatment.
If you need this kind of support or wish to volunteer as a mentor, please contact CanCare at 713-461-0028 or go to the CanCare website.
