[통합적연구] 특집 : 어린이 상담목회 -전화상담을 중심으로-

This paper is to check how the pastoral care through counseling deals with children`s current problems in church and how telephone counseling, one of the ways of the pastoral counseling, works. Unlike other general counselings, the pastoral counseling aims not only at the solutions to the problems but also at the salvation of the spirit. The telephone-counseling is needed as the previous step for face-to-face counseling. Because the phone-counseling has less restraints of time and place to meet, it can be a good medium to improve the satisfaction of the talk to modern people who complain about the shortage of their time and the infringement on their privacy. It needs the work of God`s words because the Holy Spirit leads to the healing and change of the problems. Therefore, the church teachers and pastors must have the spiritual balance to get the Spirit`s illumination through the Bible and prayer at phone-counseling. How can the phone-counseling be used for the pastoral counseling of children? Like adults, children are susceptible to many problems and so they absolutely need the discipline of the teachers and pastors. The important process of the phone-counseling for children is : First, to have trust and love between each other. Second, to analyze and interpret the relative data of the problems. Third, to encourage and pray to God for spiritual lead. The important thing here is that the teachers and pastors should change the children from human-centered global view to God-centered one through the pastoral counseling and help them to live for the glory of the God. One more important thing in phone-counseling is to use good words. These can sometimes work : the emotional words that bring happiness, the ones that open mind, the indirect that give good impression and change, and the touching cell phone text message. Besides the good interests of phone counseling, it has many limits to mutual trust because it is made of words only. In conclusion, the phonecounseling will be able to work at best when it is used together with the face-to-face counseling properly according to the circumstances of the counseling.