| dc.description.abstract | The study pursued the role of pastoral counseling in membership retention in
Seventh - day Adventist church, Ayetoro Ekiti. Procedures followed in the pursuit of
this study included an introductory statement that specified steps to be followed which
led to the development of the program.
Relevant literature examined included the Bible, the writings of Ellen G.
White, other numerous counseling books and various Christian commentators and
encyclopedia that are of vital importance to pastoral counseling in membership
retention. After the need for pastoral counseling was established, Ayetoro Ekiti was
briefly explored historically, economically, politically, socially and culturally to
expose the need for pastoral counseling in the church. Preliminary results revealed an
urgent need to regularly counsel, educate members and to design, implement and evaluate an ongoing program of the role of pastoral counseling in membership
retention.
The specific strategies for effective pastoral counseling in membership
retention were designed, and the fourth chapter carries specific measures that
constitute the strategy. The initial responses to the program implemented signal a
need for strategic pastoral counseling in membership retention in Ayetoro Ekiti.
The last part of the project is a brief recapitulation of the whole project with
necessary recommendations that cannot be exhausted. Pastoral counseling is an
instrument of healing, and communication of the good news of salvation. It is hoped
that because of the program design and implemented by this study, Seventh-day
Adventist Church, Ayetoro Ekiti will be transformed and impact the community
positively. | en_US |
