Called to Care No 4: Pastoral Action on HIV and AIDS

This book contains guidelines for training pastors and lay church leaders to better address the challenges they face related to the AIDS epidemic. According to the publication, these challenges affect churches in their teachings about sickness and healing, their forms of worship, and in their pastoral ministries. The book is part of the “Calling to Care” series, and is based on 12 years of experience by the Organisation of African Instituted Churches (OAIC), based in Nairobi, Kenya. The author is an ordained pastor who has been involved in faith-based and community responses to HIV and AIDS since 1999, and, since January 2007, he has been the General Secretary of the OAIC.

The publication includes case studies of the work of several African independent churches which, with the support of the OAIC, have responded in new ways to the challenges brought about by HIV/AIDS. According to the publishers, although these stories are drawn from OAIC member churches in Kenya and Uganda, they are relevant to churches throughout sub-Saharan Africa and beyond. The book also contains role plays, discussion guidelines, biblical references, individual case studies, and illustrations by African artists.

To order copies: Organisations in Kenya should contact OAIC (see contact details below). Organisations outside Kenya should contact TALC (see contact details below).