Free writing, recordings and recommended reading for pastoral care and member care.
Here you will find Brent Lindquist’s own writing and recordings, the blog he wrote with attorney Theresa Lynn Sidebotham, and books and organizations he has recommended. Each resource says who it is by and who it is for.
Most of these resources are on other websites. Following a link takes you to that site, which has its own terms and privacy practices.
What the Pastoral Caregiving Assistant offers, what it cannot do, who may use it and what happens to your information. PCGA is an AI tool, not a live pastor or counselor.
Articles Brent has written on his own website, brentlindquist.com.
Brent traces his work in member care and technology since 1975, from early computer-based assessment tools to the Pastoral Caregiving Assistant and his consulting with Gloo, Inc. on guidelines and guardrails for pastoral AI tools.
Brent introduces PCGA as a more intentional spiritual-emotional health, Scripture and prayer resource, for individual Christians and for Christian counselors and church leaders.
An invitation to tell Brent what is falling through the cracks in member care, so he can build resources and learning for it.
Brent reflects on stepping down from leading Link Care, walking with YFC leaders across Europe and with about 50 local pastors, and opening his website and online learning portal.
Brent and attorney Theresa Lynn Sidebotham of Telios Law created The Rock and the Hard Place, a blog on member care issues and their legal components and consequences. These conversations bring together law, human resources, psychology and theology for people who send and care for missionaries.
The full blog, with conversations between Theresa and Brent on screening, mental health, risk, child safety and restoration in mission settings.
A conversation about ensuring the best possible experience for children on the mission field.
When and how an employer can require a medical examination for a mental-health-related disability.
How to develop spiritual screening tools for candidates, and the pitfalls to avoid.
Which questions are acceptable to ask on pre-screening questionnaires.
How to tell when you, a colleague or someone you lead may need extra help, such as counseling, and what that means at work.
A conversation on risk management, and how vulnerable missions are because of where their people are and what they do.
Strategies for mission agencies that are developing accommodations, or deciding whether they can provide them.
Assessment, overseas behavior and treatment, and the cross-cultural and organizational-culture issues that come with them.
A conversation on safety plans and on preventing child abuse.
A conversation on restoration following abuse and trauma.
The opening post, in which Brent, then a psychologist and president of Link Care Center, and attorney Theresa Lynn Sidebotham introduce the purpose of the blog.
A video on Brent’s YouTube channel about AI assistants for churches and Christian organizations.
Brent’s member care programs with Member Care Media, a media ministry of TWR for cross-cultural workers. They include Change and Thrive, a four-part series that looks at the book Change or Die and asks how we actually change.
In the summer of 2022 Brent opened an online learning portal, powered by Crosswired, for his courses and cohort groups. He was one of the early learning architects for Crosswired’s Member Care and Development courses, which gather participants in digital “Communities of Purpose”.
Books and articles Brent has recommended. They are written by other authors, and each link goes to the publisher or a bookseller.
A book on walking with the Holy Spirit moment by moment. Brent has read it several times, usually with other people, including young leaders he mentors.
A new model for global mission leadership. Brent recommends it and has asked how its ideas apply to member care.
A book on the health and resilience of people serving in cross-cultural ministry. Brent has discussed it with a “Book Review with the Author” cohort in his learning portal.
A book on holistic member care for Chinese missionaries, from recruitment to retirement.
A review of Serving Together from ChinaSource Quarterly.
Ministries that offer counseling and care. They are separate organizations, and Care Resources International does not run them.
Faith-based counseling for individuals, families and ministry leaders, in Fresno, California, since 1965. Brent served at Link Care for over four decades.
Christian psychology resources, re-entry seminars for missionary kids, and counseling referrals.
More free resources will be added over time.
If you have a question about any of these resources, or about how they might serve your church or ministry, we would be glad to hear from you.