These guidelines describe how Like Precious Faith — a Scripture Dynamics ministry — comes alongside an organization to offer faith-based wellbeing care to the professionals it serves. They govern the partnership relationship, not an individual's participation. Read them plainly; if anything is unclear, write to us before we begin.
"Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour." — Ecclesiastes 4:9
Like Precious Faith offers a faith-based wellbeing resource aimed at the practitioner — the officer, driver, nurse, director, or corrections professional — rather than the population that professional serves. A partnership is the means by which that care is made available to the members or personnel of an allied organization or association. It comes beside existing faith support, employee-assistance, and member-benefit provision; it does not replace them.
Partners fall in two families. Allied organizations — faith-in-profession fellowships and ministries already alongside a profession — partner by advising, endorsing, or introducing. Professional associations — membership bodies and their partnership or member-benefit offices — partner by making the resource available to their members, typically beginning with a bounded pilot.
Every partnership begins with a conversation, not a contract. We learn the profession, the need, and the provision already in place. Only then do we propose a fitted next step — an introduction, an endorsement, or a defined pilot for a willing group. Nothing is committed until both organizations agree in writing to its shape.
The wellbeing care offered is pastoral and faith-grounded: presence, encouragement, spiritual support, and a theology of rest for those carrying heavy loads. It is not licensed clinical counseling, medical or psychiatric treatment, legal advice, or a crisis-intervention service, and it is not represented as any of these. Where a practitioner needs clinical, medical, or emergency care, Like Precious Faith encourages and defers to the appropriate licensed provider or existing employee-assistance channel.
What a practitioner shares in the course of pastoral care is held in confidence and is not reported back to the partnering organization, an employer, or an association. A partner receives, at most, general and de-identified information about participation — never the content of any individual's conversations. The particulars of confidentiality, and the narrow limits the law may place on it, are set out in the written understanding for each partnership.
Like Precious Faith works alongside, and never against, a partner's existing faith-support, peer-support, or employee-assistance programs. The aim is to fill the space beside them — care for the practitioner's own wellbeing — not to compete with, replace, or displace resources already serving the organization or the people it encounters.
This is a faith-based ministry, grounded in the Authorized Version (King James Bible), and it does not disguise that. What Like Precious Faith offers is not another religious office or a system of observance, but rest — the rest that proceeds only from surrender to the Person and Work of the biblical, historical Christ, apart from the striving of legalism. At the same time, care is offered with respect for the practitioner's freedom: it is never coerced, never a condition of employment or membership, and always received by the practitioner's own choosing. A partner organization's own policies on faith-based provision are honored throughout.
"Let all your things be done with charity." — 1 Corinthians 16:14
How a partnership is supported — whether underwritten, sponsored, offered as a member benefit, or otherwise — is discussed openly and set out in the written understanding before anything begins. The teaching and public resources of Scripture Dynamics remain freely given; what a partnership supports is the labor of coming alongside practitioners directly.
Either organization may conclude a partnership by writing to the other. Care already underway with individual practitioners is wound down with their wellbeing in view, not abruptly severed. The particulars of notice and conclusion are set out in each written understanding.
These guidelines may be revised as the ministry grows. Material changes will be reflected here with an updated date below. Any specific partnership is governed by the written understanding in force between the two organizations at the time.
"He must increase, but I must decrease." — John 3:30