Date of Award
2018
Document Type
Project
Degree Name
Doctor of Ministry (DMin)
Committee Chair
Hebert Palomino
Abstract
The goal of this project was to test whether storytelling could be used to facilitate healing in adult parishioners who had experienced violence. The project engaged congregants of St. Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church in Canton, Georgia in a series of five workshops that taught, modeled, and used storytelling as a pastoral care intervention. The personal stories of five research participants were recorded in individual sessions. Common themes within the individual stories shared were identified and discussed with the research group. The group brainstormed ideas about how the church could use storytelling to minister healing to violence victims. The outcome of the study bears implications for future research.
Citation Information
Dobbs, Lemora, "Storytelling as a Pastoral Care Intervention that Ministers Healing to Adult Parishioners of St. Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church in Canton, Georgia Who Have Experienced Violence" (2018). Doctor of Ministry Projects. 41.
https://digitalcommons.gardner-webb.edu/divinity_etd/41