Addiction Ministry 101: Four Part Seminar

August 27 @ 11:00 am - September 17 @ 12:30 pm

Addiction Ministry 101
A Class for Those Who Want to Offer Support to Those with Addiction and Those Who Love Them with Otto Schultz
Wednesdays
11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. CTAugust 27, Sept 3, 10 & 17
This program will provide instruction on five simple communication tools to give exceptional care to families troubled by substance problems, and for people in early recovery.

Fee: $50.00
(Registrants will be invoiced) 
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Every experienced Pastor/Minister has run into the frustrations of dealing with substance use problems and other addictions.  Referring people to AA, Al-anon, and treatment is helpful, but sound pastoral care is important for everyone in the family. Pastoral care is equally important to people in recovery as they rethink their spiritual lives.

Rev. Otto Schultz, a retired Lutheran pastor and alcohol and drug counselor, teaches this four-week course. It offers practical education on unique effective and urgently needed models of pastoral and congregational ministry. These models show how sound theology and good science work together for church and clergy to “let their light so shine” with people and families in trouble with alcohol, drugs and other addictions.

You are invited to this four-part seminar to learn:

1. How to use five simple communication tools to give exceptional care to families troubled by substance problems and for people in early recovery.
2. How these communication tools are useful for many hard conversations.
3. Why you don’t need to be a therapist to do sound pastoral care with addicted people or their families.
4. How science and theology work together on this issue.
5. What it’s like to be a clergy who has struggled with addiction and now enjoys recovery.
6. What congregations can learn from 12 Step Recovery.
7. Why it’s likely that your congregation has experienced people who want to help in this ministry.
8. How to find these people and help them become a team with an effective ministry.
The program uses a wide range of educational methods to keep it lively and to appeal to a variety of learning styles . 

Rev. Otto B. Schultz, B. A., M. Div., and Licensed Alcohol and Drug Counselor (Ret.).  A graduate of Concordia Seminary in St. Louis, this ELCA Pastor has been in the substance abuse field for over 45 years.   He has trained thousands of people in practical tools for addressing substance use problems and helped hundreds of families intervene successfully.Schultz retired as the Spiritual Counselor at Bryan Medical Center Independence Center in Lincoln.

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