Author Ronald H. Sunderland’s New Book “Saying Our Stories: A Guide for Individuals Who Are Story-Listeners” Explores Equipping Laypeople for Their Role in Ministry
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Mint Hills, NC, April 10, 2025 --( PR.com )-- Ronald H. Sunderland, an ordained minister as well as a loving husband and father, has completed his new book “Saying Our Stories: A Guide for Individuals Who Are Story-Listeners”: a comprehensive guide that draws from the author’s decades of work in pastoral care to offer readers a practical and heartfelt approach to the critical ministry of story-listening.Born in Australia in 1929, author Ronald H. Sunderland moved to Houston, Texas in 1966 with his wife, Noël, and their four children, to enroll in a clergy pastoral ministry course offered in US hospitals by the newly formed Association for Clinical Pastoral Education (ACPE). “My initial goal was to begin a four-year clinical pastoral education program (CPE) at the Institute of Religion in the Texas Medical Center. The Equipping Laypeople for Ministry (ELM) program, which I founded in 1979, proved effective in the dual tasks of lay pastoral care training and the preparation of clergy for their necessary function of oversight of lay pastors.“‘Saying Our Stories’ is the account of the pioneering effort to undertake those tasks and demonstrate the effectiveness of the new model of parish pastoral ministry. Page Publishing knows that authors need to be free to create, not mired in logistics like eBook conversion, establishing wholesale accounts, insurance, shipping, taxes, and so on. Page’s accomplished writers and publishing professionals allow authors to leave behind these complex and time-consuming issues and focus on their passion: writing and creating.