Pastoral Interventions During the Pandemic

This book provides an interdisciplinary exploration of the challenges faced by pastoral ministry in South African Pentecostalism as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, as well as some interventions being made to manage these challenges. Contributors present descriptive approaches to churches reactions to lockdown measures, and especially the adaptations generated within Pentecostalism in South Africa. Through a variety of approachesincluding pastoral care, virtual ecclesiology, social media, and missiologycontributors offer intervention techniques which can help readers to understand the unique role of Christian ministry during the pandemic, in South Africa and beyond.