Stephen Ministry is the one-to-one lay caring ministry that takes place in participating congregations. Stephen Ministry congregations equip and empower lay caregivers-called Stephen Ministers-to provide high-quality, confidential, Christ-centered care to people who are hurting.

Male and female Stephen Ministers are paired with male and female Care Receivers respectively. Confidentiality is key to the ministry. Stephen Ministers receive support through supervision, continuing education, and coaching on a monthly basis.

Stephen Ministry is open to the public; church membership is not required.

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Free

Sts. Peter and Paul parish realizes that the death of a loved one is a very challenging time.  Members of the Bereavement Committee unite  in assisting the family during this time of need.

Volunteers respond immediately when notified of a death and are willing to provide assistance with the funeral reception or any other arrangements, if requested.

Our Bereavement Committee coordinates with the family to ensure that food is prepared and is ready to be served to the family and guests following a funeral.

Some members of this ministry assist with the preparation of baked goods or sandwiches at home, while others come to the parish and set up facilities for the reception and serve those who attend.

Follow-up calls may be made to family members for several months following a death.

If you need the services of this ministry or if you would like to volunteer to join this ministry, contact Merlene Peters 830-625-0345 or Carol Friemuth 830-625-6530.

God’s Healing Love is a Grief Support Ministry that offers comfort to families and individuals who have experienced the death of a loved one. Volunteers strive to be a source of God’s Love, Care and Support through personal contact to those experiencing grief.

For God's Healing Love, contact Lee Ambrosino at 210-865-1801.

Life After Loss, our grief support group designed to help us better understand the process of grief and how to live through it in a way that is healing.

For information on meeting times, contact Darlene Acker 210-313-4818.

GriefShare is a friendly, caring group of people who will walk alongside you through one of life’s most difficult experiences.

You will find welcome, support, and respite in the company of others who are struggling with the natural and normal responses to grief.  A few of the many feelings associated with the death of a dear friend, a parent or grandparent, a child or sibling include:

• Emotional numbness
• Unusual forgetfulfulness
• Crying unexpectedly, stomach pains, chest discomfort
• Feelings of guilt and regret
• Anger at God (and sometimes toward your beloved)
• Loss of appetite (or the opposite)
• Feeling as though life no longer has meaning
• Tremendous anxiety; easily agitated state of mind

GriefShare also offers short daily email messages that encourage, inspire, and provide practical information. Click here to sign up.

The groups are currently on break for the summer months. Classes will resume in August/September.

Participation is open to adult SJLC members and nonmembers (17 yrs+) of all faiths and all denominations at no charge.

Click here to find this group's most current dates and times.

Free

Mission work is one of the founding principles of our church, and there are many ways to get involved!

Little Free Food Pantry

What started as the Eagle Scout project of one of our high schoolers has grown into a service that provides critical aid to our community. Our Little Free Pantry makes deliveries every other week to several families in the area and also keeps a pantry stocked in our partnered Hill Country MHDD clinic for clients.

Act II Sewing

Act II Sewing is a group of ladies who meet on the third Tuesday of the month at 9:30 am to sew for a good cause. Some of their regular projects are stuffed animals for St. Jude Children’s Home, Presbyterian Children’s Home, and other organizations and occasions where children might need a bit of comfort.

They make clothing protectors, lap blankets, shawls, walker bags, and more for nursing home residents, hospice patients, and Meals on Wheels recipients. You don’t need to be skilled at sewing to help make these projects and more, just come by and lend a hand.

Kids Hope

Kids Hope is a national non-profit organization that partners young students in need with mentors from a local church, who provide a one-on-one relationship dedicated to supporting their growth.

Mentors meet with their students once a week for one hour, helping with homework, providing a listening ear, and being a steady source of support. Canyon Lake Presbyterian Church has been partnered with Kids Hope since 1998. If you would like to be a mentor or a prayer partner, please contact us to learn more.

Partnership with Mental Health Clinic

We are partnered with the Canyon Lake branch of the Hill Country Mental Health and Developmental Disability Center. The fully staffed mental health clinic operates full-time out of our Fellowship Hall and provides mental health, individual developmental disability, and substance abuse services to our community. If you are in need or wish to learn more, go to their website at https://www.hillcountry.org/services/canyon-lake-mh-center/ or call their office at 830-387-5995.

Donations

In addition to all of the more hands-on work we do at Canyon Lake Presbyterian Church, we make donations to many organizations in our local community and the larger world. These include, but are not limited to:

• CRRC Food Pantry
• John Knox Ranch
• Canyon Lake Meals on Wheels
• Mission Presbytery
• Mo-Ranch
• Presbyterian Church USA
• Presbyterian Disaster Assistance
• CARE of Canyon Lake

Click here to Donate

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Stephen Ministry is the one-to-one lay caring ministry that takes place in participating congregations. Stephen Ministry congregations equip and empower lay caregivers-called Stephen Ministers-to provide high-quality, confidential, Christ-centered care to people who are hurting.

Male and female Stephen Ministers are paired with male and female Care Receivers respectively. Confidentiality is key to the ministry. Stephen Ministers receive support through supervision, continuing education, and coaching on a monthly basis.

Stephen Ministry is open to the public; church membership is not required.

Assisted Listening System Available 

Free

Sophia Wisdom Circles are a safe, interspiritual space for women to gather from across different faith traditions (or no faith tradition) and are founded on the concept that women working together can promote peace. 

They are made up of women who want to meditate together, to extend a hand of peace across faith barriers, and to share wisdom from each others' traditions.

Circles can gather in-person or online.

A Sophia Wisdom Circle usually:

• Is facilitated by two women from different faith traditions (including no faith tradition)
• Meets once a month
• Meets for one hour
• Meditates silently together for between 5-20 Minutes
• Shares and discusses a wisdom text brought by a different person each month
• Shares insights into contemplative practices from different traditions 
• Are free to leave after one hour, but are welcome to stay longer if desired

Camp Agape’s Summer Camp Program is a bereavement camp where children are guided through a therapeutic healing process. The unique and innovative faith-based program includes the exciting activities a typical summer camp offers, with added group therapy activities incorporating art, music, games, and play therapy.

Summer Camp is designed to help the children understand their feelings, process their emotions, and find new ways to cope with the death of their loved one—all with the central theme of offering true hope for their future.

Summer Camp offers a way to connect children who have lost loved ones with other children experiencing the same thing. They are free to share their feelings, thoughts, and experiences. In this safe and supportive environment, children gain a sense of belonging and learn they are not alone in their grief.

Ages: 7 - 12.

Click here to apply.

Summer Camp Activities include:

• Fishing
• Swimming
• Smores
• Horseback Riding
• Crafts
• Grief Coaching
• Honoring
• Candle Lighting
• Healing
• Play Therapy

Free.

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Stephen Ministers extend the care of the congregations to those with a variety of needs.

First Presbyterian Church's Stephen Ministry equips lay people to provide confidential, one-to-one Christian care to individuals in our congregation and community who are experiencing difficulties in their lives.

We all experience challenges in life - times when we could benefit from the support of a caring Christian friend. Stephen Ministers are ready to provide the emotional and spiritual care we need when faced with a crisis or difficulty such as:

• Loss of a loved one
• Hospitalization
• Divorce or separation
• Loneliness or discouragement
• Spiritual crisis
• Unemployment or a job crisis
• Chronic or terminal illness
• Incarceration
• Aging
• Birth, adoption, miscarriage, or infertility
• Relocation
• Recovery after an accident or disaster

Stephen Ministry is a confidential ministry: the identity of those receiving care and what takes place in each caring relationship remains private.

Stephen Ministry is open to the public; church membership is not required.

Free

Grief-Share is a Thirteen Week program used by numerous parishes nationwide. It consists of 13 sessions with an interactive workbook and videos that are led by various experts in the fields of psychology and ministry along with those who have gone through the bereavement process.

Grief Share keys in on the various realities one may face and provides coping tools that help with emotional and practical realities with the use of practical analogies to assist participants who may be grieving. 

Some tools assist those who may be living alone or may have moved in with other family members. These tools are of immediate use. This program also addresses concerns such as regret, the sense of loneliness, guilt, anger, and the various traumas associated with the loss of a loved one.

For more information contact Rumalda Rivera at 830-997-9523
[email protected]

Click here for the calendar for dates, times & location

Family Service recognizes the increased need for available family and individual counseling, parenting education, youth prevention education, and other human services resources in the Uvalde area. To meet this increased need, the Uvalde Walmart has offered their vacant clinic space to Family Service, and the company has also provided a $250,000 grant supporting comprehensive mental health services for the Uvalde community.

The provided clinic space is located at 3100 E Main St in the Uvalde Walmart building. Family Service, which is deeply embedded in the Uvalde community, has provided mental health and other support to the community since 2000 and will continue to provide those services.

Families and Individuals may also reach Family Service through our website or by calling our offices at 830-448-9630 or 830-591-8599. If anyone in the surrounding areas wishes to support our efforts, we invite them to donate to us online. All proceeds given in support of Uvalde will go back to providing long-term counseling and healing to the community.

All individuals and families in Uvalde and the surrounding area who wish to receive crisis support, mental health services, or other human service needs, can come to the new location and enter through the door outside of the Home and Pharmacy entrance.

Take the middle entrance to Wal-Mart and our private entrance is located by the vending machine.

Counseling services are for children, adolescents, and adults.

Free.

If you, or anyone you know, has been affected by this tragedy and needs counseling, grief, and mental health support, or crisis management resources, we are here for you.

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Family Service grieves with our friends, families, and neighbors for all victims of the Robb Elementary School Mass Shooting. We are here, as we have been since 2000, in Uvalde, to help families.

Click here for more information.

The Uvalde Together Resiliency Center (UTRC) is a program of The Ecumenical Center that provides resources, support, and hope to individuals, families, students, faculty, community, and organizations impacted by the tragedy at Robb Elementary School.

Participating organizations and the services each provides:

The Ecumenical Center

• Long term mental health counseling services with trauma & grief specialists for all ages
• Music, Art & Play Therapy
• Support Groups
• No-cost support for families and community

Bluebonnet Children's Advocacy Center

• Trauma-informed care, particularly for child victims and their families

Nueva Vida Counseling

• Long-term mental health counseling services
• Child psychiatry
• Adult psychiatry

Hill Country Mental Health

• Mental health services and counseling

Family Service

• Financial counseling only

All services are FREE of charge and provided regardless of citizenship status.

Crossroads helps deal with the emotional and mental distress of these transitions by providing quality treatment in a safe, caring, and confidential setting.

Therapeutic group sessions provide patients the opportunity to examine, process, and manage stress-related transitions.

Ages: 65+

Recognizing signs and symptoms of emotional distress is an essential first step toward treatment and recovery.

Crossroads provides a clinical assessment at no cost to determine an individual's need for treatment. Patients will be under the direct care of the program psychiatrist along with qualified, licensed staff who will provide customized care to help patients cope.

Click here for additional information.

We accept most major insurances.

Crossroads helps deal with the emotional and mental distress of these transitions by providing quality treatment in a safe, caring, and confidential setting.

Patients meet with a psychiatrist once a month via telehealth. Individual weekly sessions with a counselor onsite are also available.

Ages: 65+

Recognizing signs and symptoms of emotional distress is an essential first step toward treatment and recovery. Crossroads provides a clinical assessment at no cost to determine an individual's need for treatment.

Patients will be under the direct care of the program psychiatrist along with qualified, licensed staff who will provide customized care to help patients cope.

Click here for more information.

We accept all major insurances.

The Comfort Crew is best known for its Comfort Kits. Designed for school-age children, these four specialized resource kits address specific challenges and transitions associated with growing up in a military family:

• being separated due to deployments
• reconnecting after a time of separation
• having a parent return with a visible and/or invisible injury
• experiencing grief over the loss of a family member

Each Comfort Crew piece uses a unique blend of humor and personal stories to open kids up to talking about the "tough stuff." These unique edutainment experiences allow us to talk about serious subjects in a way that is accessible to children.

Comfort Kits include:

• With You All the Way! Dealing With Deployment
• Together Again! Helping Military Families Reconnect
• Helping Military Children Handle Loss
• Taking Care of You! Support for Kids of Injured Heroes

To learn more about the Comfort Kits and other resources, click here.

Click here to donate to Comfort Kits

One in five youth and young adults in the U.S. lives with a mental health condition, and almost 50% of adults will experience a mental illness during their lifetime. When that happens, we are here to help them find hope and ultimately live successful, fulfilling lives.

• Schools
• Foster Care
• Families
• Adult and Juvenile Justice Systems
• Primary Care Physicians

Our Services

• Diagnostic Interview Examination
• Engagement Activity
• Assessment
• Case Management
• Diagnostic Interview Examination
• Family Partner Supports
• Counseling
• Rehabilitative & Skills Training
• Medication Training and Support
• Parent Support Group
• Crisis Intervention
• Housing
• Employment & Education
• Forensic Services

Click here to learn more about our services

We accept STAR, CHIP, PLUS, and all Medicaid/Medicare Insurances.

Children’s Bereavement Center of South Texas is now open in Uvalde.

Our staff is ready to serve children in the community struggling to cope with residual trauma and grief. At our Center for Comfort and Consults, families are invited to relax, decompress, and connect with our staff. This safe space allows families the opportunity to determine when they are ready to start services. 

Grief support services offered include grief counseling, grief camps, and support groups for children and adults.

Visiting psychologists are available in the David Conference Room whenever the library is open. No appointment is needed. Anyone of any age or gender is welcome to come and talk about anything. In some cases, the psychologists can visit homes.

Family Service Association offers numerous professional counseling services including: Individual, Couples, Family, Group, Substance Abuse Counseling, and Consultations.

We also provide specialty educational groups such as Anger Management and Domestic Violence Prevention designed to help maintain personal wellness. Services are offered locally in the San Antonio metropolitan area and our rural locations. The services are provided through a combination of at-home and office-based visits. Our licensed counselors are available days, evenings, Saturdays, and by special appointment.

Our counseling professionals provide services to include working with children, youth, families, and seniors. Our team has many specialized skills to successfully address a wide range of counseling needs. Services are offered for both short and long-term depending on individual needs. We are available to assist with the following:

• Anger Management
• Child Abuse and Neglect
• Child Sexual Abuse
• Depression
• Domestic Violence
• Grief Support
• LGBT Issues
• Life Skills
• Parenting
• Relapse Prevention
• Relationships
• Stress
• Substance Abuse
• Victimization from Crime
• And more!

Our behavioral health counseling services are available now in both in-person and telehealth formats, at the discretion of the client, after an initial in-person session for enrollment purposes.

For more information, please contact the Family Service Behavioral Health Counseling team at 210-299-2406.

Uninsured clients have the option to see clinicians on a sliding scale fee.

Play therapy and counseling for ages 3-17.

Private pay. $125 a session.

Super bills provided for clients to self-file with their insurance if desired.

Counseling for 18+ adult women.

Private pay. $125 a session.

Super bills provided for clients to self-file with their insurance if desired.

STARRY FAYS services are available at no cost to families with children up to 17 years old. FAYS services include individual, group, and family counseling...Insurance and money are never an issue, as we serve clients from varying backgrounds and income levels. Parenting can be challenging, especially if your family is facing added stressors like school or behavioral issues. STARRY’s Family and Youth Success Program strives to help children and families manage those everyday challenges.

While there are many reasons that families seek services at STARRY, some of the most common are- divorce, grief, trauma, family conflict, behavioral issues, school challenges, depression, anxiety, and ADHD. Our Counselors and Family Support Specialists are here to help you navigate those challenges and struggles while providing you with support and resources. Families most often report feeling that they will be better able to cope with future challenges once completing STARRY services. Our staff use evidence-based and promising practices to help your family realize their strengths and communicate their needs.

• Child in the home between 0-17.
• The child cannot be formally adjudicated.
• Enrolling caregiver needs to have custody of the child/proof of custody through legal paperwork if they are signing up the child for services.

STARRY provides short-term, strengths-based counseling services. STARRY does not provide legal counsel, does not make recommendations to the courts about a child’s future custody, and does not represent families in court.

FREE

Counseling and therapy services are available for individuals (adults, adolescents, and children), families, and couples. 

The Baylor Psychology Center (BPC) was established in 2005 as a part of the doctoral program in clinical psychology at the Baylor University. Currently, the BPC is a training, research, and service unit of the American Psychological Association accredited doctoral training program in Clinical Psychology of the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Baylor University.

We are located in the Baylor Tower at 8th and Washington in downtown Waco. Reserved parking is available on the third level "C" of the parking garage located behind the building at 8th and Columbus.

Prospective clients are invited to complete a no-cost phone intake to determine whether BPC services are the best fit for the identified mental health concerns.

After completing a telephone intake interview, clients are placed on a waiting list for assignment to the next available clinician. Waiting times vary dependent upon clinician and supervisor availability.

Counseling services are provided on a sliding scale fee based on income that ranges from $5.00 - $35.00 per session.

One in five youth and young adults in the U.S. lives with a mental health condition, and almost 50% of adults will experience a mental illness during their lifetime. When that happens, we are here to help them find hope and ultimately live successful, fulfilling lives.

• Schools
• Foster Care
• Families
• Adult and Juvenile Justice Systems
• Primary Care Physicians

Our Services

• Diagnostic Interview Examination
• Engagement Activity
• Assessment
• Case Management
• Diagnostic Interview Examination
• Family Partner Supports
• Counseling
• Rehabilitative & Skills Training
• Medication Training and Support
• Parent Support Group
• Crisis Intervention
• Housing
• Employment & Education
• Forensic Services

Click here to learn more about our services

We accept STAR, CHIP, PLUS, and all Medicaid/Medicare Insurances.