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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 approaches-including pastoral care, virtual ecclesiology, social media, and missiology-contributors offer intervention techniques which can help readers to understand the unique role of Christian ministry during the pandemic, in South Africa and beyond.

Pastoral Interventions During the Pandemic: Pentecostal Perspectives on Christian Ministry in South Africa

1. Introduction: Pastoral ministry during COVID19 in South African Pentecostalism [Kgatle & Vondey]
2. Virtual ecclesiology in light of the challenges posed by COVID-19 in South Africa  [Perseverance Molehe]
3. The shutdown of Church services during COVID-19 in South Africa: a Social work perspective [Frank Rapholo]
4. Pentecostal pastoral calling and ministry in South Africa during COVID-19 [Paul Mngadi]
5. Caring for grieving congregations due to the death of their pastors to COVID-19 [Mangaliso Matshobane]
6. The subtle benefit of social gathering and its prominence during hard Lockdown: a pastoral care approach [Buti Mulutsi]
7. The use of social media during the spread COVID-19 in South Africa [Jonas Thinane]
8. The impact of Social media on the 'Black' church during COVID-19 [Mercy Bvuma]
9. Martin Luther's hymn in the Global Pandemic of the 1520s: Pastoral ministry lessons for COVID-19 [Zuze Banda]
Epilogue [Kgatle & Vondey]