• Register Now for February Seminars
• Program of Self Care for Army Reserve Chaplains Still Available
• The Care of Troublesome People Republished in Quality Paper
• Subscriber Bonus: Preview chapter for The Care of Troublesome People by Wayne Oates
  

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Register Now for February Seminars

Registration for the February 2008 online seminars offered by the Oates Institute is now open. Each of these seminars will last three weeks, February 4-22.  Participants in any one of the seminars may earn at least 12 contact hours of continuing education credit. The online seminars are free to Oates Institute members and only $60 per seminar for non-members.

Seminars offered in February include:

• Dreams, Journals, and Spirituality
• Exploring Celtic Spirituality
• Fighting the Tiger: The Effects of Emotional Trauma
• Finding God at the Multiplex: A Lenten Film Festival
• Finding Hope When There Is No Cure
• Spiritual Assessment: It's a SNAP
• Spirituality and Mental Illness
• When Children Suffer: Ministry with Families Experiencing Domestic Violence

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Program of Self Care for Army Reserve Chaplains

The start date for the program. Self Care for Army Reserve Chaplains, has been pushed back to February 18. There is still time to sign up to participate and to share this news with other Army Reserve Chaplains.

Like all soldiers who experience combat, army chaplains may experience physical, psychological, and spiritual trauma.  As individuals whose role is to help others, it can be especially difficult for chaplains to find the help and the “safe” space they need to care for themselves.  Self Care for Army Chaplains is a unique program designed to help army chaplains care for themselves. 

Participants in this program will remain together online for approximately three months and, in addition, they will have a two-day retreat where they can come together in-person for peer support, discussion and relaxation.   

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The Care of Troublesome People Republished in Wayne Oates Library

The Care of Troublesome People has just been released in quality paperback as part of the Wayne E. Oates Library Collection. While it was previously republished as an eBook, this is the first in a new series republished as quality paperbacks. As a part of this new series we will be utilizing the original art work of several WEOI members. The art on the cover of this first book is by Dr. Carol J. Phipps. In The Care of Troublesome People, Wayne Oates combines family systems theory with insightful analysis of five types of behavior that frequently create conflict in congregations.

Dr. Oates skillfully integrates biblically based approaches with insights from the behavioral sciences to assist clergy, congregational leaders, and others in the care of persons demonstrating these behaviors.

This book helps one learn to approach troubled and troublesome people in ways that are not dismissive, but instead are caring, affirming, and firmly grounded in God's grace. Rather than point fingers, fix blame, or characterize such people as bad or evil (which can only serve to create further turmoil), Oates proposes a new and more wholistic way to offer care. for these some people that focuses on the issues of wholeness and care for the individual, one's self, and the congregation.

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The Care of Troublesome People by Wayne E. Oates

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