Care Ministries serve the needs of those in our community who are suffering from the challenges of the broken world in which we live.
It is our desire to show the love of Jesus by offering care in ways that touch hurting lives, to encourage them in love, and to deepen their relationship with God and others. Please email us with any questions; we are here for you.
Celebrate Recovery
Wednesdays 5:30-7:30 PM | Sanctuary
Celebrate Recovery is for anyone struggling with hurts, hang-ups and habits that hinder their relationships with God, others and themselves. We have all developed coping mechanisms to deal with brokenness; some are deceptive like codependency, control, overspending, or self-righteousness while others are more unambiguous like chemical dependence or a gambling addiction. Celebrate Recovery welcomes you to a safe place to find community and freedom. Please join us for a Christ-centered 12-step program based on the beatitudes so that you can experience life to the full—just as our good shepherd Jesus promised.
Counseling
For those with counseling needs, we would love to connect you to a trusted local licensed Christian counselor. Contact care@coswayne.org so that we can help assess and connect you with the appropriate counselor.
Divorce Care
Monday Evenings | Coming Soon
Divorce Care meets in the Spring and Fall for twelve consecutive weeks on Monday evenings. We provide a safe and supportive environment where individuals can process their experiences, receive encouragement, and move forward with renewed faith and strength.
Divorce Care is seeking volunteer leaders who have a deep desire to help people heal and grow from the heartache of divorce. If God might be nudging, you to serve as a volunteer for Divorce Care and if you would like to be interviewed for consideration, please contact care@coswayne.org
Divorce Care is seeking volunteer leaders who have a deep desire to help people heal and grow from the heartache of divorce. If God might be nudging, you to serve as a volunteer for Divorce Care and if you would like to be interviewed for consideration, please contact care@coswayne.org
GriefShare
Tuesday Afternoons | Coming Soon
Do you know someone suffering from the loss of a loved one? GriefShare is a 13-week seminar and support group designed to help you rebuild your life after losing a loved one or close friend. Here you'll find a safe place to heal from your loss with others who understand what you are going through. For more information, go to griefshare.org and enter Wayne, PA, 19087.
Love-in-Action (Deacons)
Church of the Saviour's Love-in-Action Ministry is funded by the generous gifts of the congregation to assist members and attenders with practical help, short-term financial support, and connections to various Christian and/or community resources. Contact with the Love-in-Action board should be made by calling the compassion line on 610.688.6338 (option 3), which is monitored daily by a deacon or deaconess.
Spiritual Direction
Wednesdays by Appointment
At COS, we are committed to loving God, loving others, and serving the world. The starting point for everything is loving God, which involves deeply and personally experiencing His love. It’s God’s love in us that frees us to love others in a Christlike way as the Holy Spirit prompts us and to go on to serve. The challenge for most of us is the beginning: to love God.
How do we experience God in a way that allows us to deeply sense His Presence, guidance, and shaping of our lives as a loving Father, to be more like Jesus?
Often, we’re being dutiful Christians, learning Scripture and doing good things, but without the deep (and deepening) sense of God in and with us. Psalm 139 tells us He was present when He knitted us in our mother’s womb and that He’s present everywhere we go, in every moment!
Sadly, we may neither realize it nor experience it. We often live in our heads, not as deeply in our hearts as we could if we paused to experience our uniqueness and the path God wants us to walk.
That’s the role of the spiritual director: helping us to discern and live in a way that is our path to follow Jesus. Roy Shirley is available to meet in-person for spiritual direction on Wednesdays, and by zoom or phone other days.
That’s the role of the spiritual director: helping us to discern and live in a way that is our path to follow Jesus. Roy Shirley is available to meet in-person for spiritual direction on Wednesdays, and by zoom or phone other days.
Stephen Ministry
Stephen Ministry provides one-to-one, Christ-centered care to people in the congregation and community experiencing life's difficulties. Our Stephen Ministers are well trained, and experienced to provide hope and faith when life makes hard turns. If you are experiencing one of life’s many transitions (job loss, new baby, moving, beginning college, becoming an empty nester, loss of a spouse, divorce, new job, illness, newly married et al.) and would like to be paired with a Stephen Minister (or are interested in becoming a Stephen Minister yourself), please contact stephenministry@coswayne.org.
Visitation
Do you know someone who needs encouragement, comfort or a sense of belonging? Our goal through visitation is to regularly check on and encourage our members who are unable to participate in corporate church life. If you know someone who could benefit from a personal call, handwritten card or in-home visit, please contact info@coswayne.org.
Widow's Gathering
Third Sundays at 1:00 PM
Join us for conversation and fun! Come once a month for camaraderie and fellowship at the house of Rita McPeak in Berywn, 10 minutes from COS. The more the merrier! We hope you will come join us. Desserts and beverages are provided.