Beaumont's First Baptist Church

Stephen Ministry

Emotional and Spiritual Support

Stephen Ministers, from Beaumont’s First Baptist faith family, will provide confidential, one-to-one Christian care to individuals in the church and community who are experiencing difficulties in their lives.

Stephen Ministry equips lay people from Beaumont’s First Baptist faith family to provide confidential, one-to-one Christian care to individuals in the church and community who are experiencing difficulties in their lives. Stephen Ministers meet weekly with their assigned care receiver, listen to them and pray for them. They encourage them by providing emotional and spiritual care while faced with a crisis or difficulty such as:

• Loneliness or discouragement

• Spiritual Crisis

• Unemployment or a job crisis

• Relocation

• Birth, adoption, miscarriage, or infertility

• Loss of a loved one

• Marriage difficulties, divorce or separation

• Loss of independence

• Hospitalization, chronic illness, cancer

Request a Stephen Minister

To request having a Stephen Minister, contact the church office. You will be contacted by the Referrals Coordinator who will set up an appointment to listen to your story and make an appropriate assignment.

Becoming a Stephen Minister

Christ caring for people through people

What do Stephen Ministers do?

They listen, explore feelings, pray, share Christ’s love, maintain confidentiality, and attend to the caregiving process and leave the results to God. We care for people who are grieving, in a crisis, in need of long-term care, dying, hospitalized, divorcing, experiencing losses as they age, going through a crisis of childbirth, and more.

To become a Stephen Minister, call the office to request an application.

We conduct training sessions once or twice a year. Training includes 50 hours of participation in teaching. After Commissioning, Stephen Ministers are required to commit to two years of service and bi-monthly supervision with the Stephen Ministry peer group.