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It shows how home groups can be places where people's pain and difficulties are noticed, and first steps taken to help. Wendy Billington offers valuable insights coupled with realistic and practical advice, drawing on her years of pastoral work in the community and in the local church, as well as on her personal experiences of loss and cancer. Wendy coordinates the pastoral care programme at St Nicholas Church, Sevenoaks, which includes providing training in pastoral skills, listening to people's concern, bereavement care, marriage enrichment and supporting cancer sufferers and their families. 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Those struggling with particular problems in their lives may feel they can't be honest about their circumstances even - perhaps especially - in a church context. Isolation, shame, and anxiety about how others will perceive them can add to their difficulties, compounding them with a sense of being locked in with the problem. Using case studies, Bible teaching and practical guidelines, Wendy shows how church members can understand and support one another, not only helping individuals but building a community that is characterised by loving, sensitive pastoral care.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49640511406353,"sku":"GOR006116107","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53117163110673,"sku":"GOR008952112","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1841018716.jpg?v=1751437833"},{"product_id":"my-journey-book-wendy-billington-9781803816241","title":"My Journey","description":"Shaped today by the experiences of yesterday. This  is the theme that is clearly yet sensitively portrayed throughout the book . We meet a shy, sensitive youngster enjoying all that life has to offer her when  at the age of eight everything changes. Holidaying with her family on the Isle of Wight and sitting in rows on the beach alongside other holidaymakers, she hears the voice of the Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain announcing that the country had declared war on Nazi Germany. Over the following six years with its disruptions and fears of the unknown  it is no wonder that emerging in 1945 was a confused, withdrawn, disgruntled yet seemingly independent teenager.    Wendy's adventurous spirit was evident and only nine years after the war's end saw her in the British Zone of Occupied Germany  appointed and employed by  the War Office to teach the youngsters  of British personnel stationed throughout  the Zone  in a comprehensive  co-educational boarding school.  Its modern buildings and extensive grounds  had been  a former  German naval  training base. Beautifully located on a lake water sport was high on the pupils'  agenda. Security was strict since the Russian Zone was only a short distance away.  Subsequently employed by the Air Ministry where for five years she taught  the children of  NATO  personnel  working in Fontainebleau near Paris for five years. Travel is in her blood  and she has used opportunities that came her way to visit many places across Europe and beyond.   Wendy's life is action packed  from its start and  engrossing to read. Now in her early nineties she is able to look back on her  journey of life  and write with honesty and openness, not flinching from the ups and downs of her life including early bereavement. Without these experiences and inherent gifts which came to the fore in later years, she might not have been identified nor reached her true potential through the people-centred life  she led, grippingly described in Part 2 of the book. 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