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Pastoral Ministry Resource

Spiritual Care Session Tool

A confidential, offline instrument for walking with a person through a spiritual care session. Built for ministers, it installs on your phone or tablet and runs with no internet connection.

Open the Tool Then add it to your home screen (steps below)

Best installed on the device you will use in sessions.

Your sessions stay private

Nothing about a person you care for is ever sent over the internet. The tool has no network code in it. Everything you enter lives only on your own device.

Saving a session downloads a file directly to your device. That is a local action, never an upload. This website only ever hands out a blank copy of the tool.

How to install it

iPhone or iPad+
  1. Open this page in Safari. It must be Safari, not Chrome.
  2. Tap Open the Tool above and let it load fully while you have signal.
  3. Tap the Share button, the square with an arrow pointing up, at the bottom of the screen.
  4. Scroll down and tap Add to Home Screen.
  5. Tap Add in the top corner. The icon appears on your home screen.
  6. Open the tool once from that new icon while still connected, so the offline copy finishes saving.

After that first launch from the icon, the tool works with no signal at all, including a basement room or a home with no bars.

Android phone or tablet+
  1. Open this page in Chrome.
  2. Tap Open the Tool above and let it load fully.
  3. If Chrome shows an Install app banner, tap it and you are done.
  4. If not, tap the three dot menu at the top right, then tap Add to Home screen or Install app.
  5. Confirm. The icon appears on your home screen and opens full screen.
Windows or Mac computer+
  1. Open this page in Chrome or Edge.
  2. Click Open the Tool above.
  3. Look for a small install icon at the right end of the address bar, a monitor with a down arrow.
  4. Click it and confirm. The tool opens in its own window like a regular program.