Care & Resources

Family Advocacy

The Family Advocacy ministry exists to form intentional relationships with those in need in our community and to help them move toward healthy community, stable housing, financial stability, and spiritual growth.

For more information please email deacons@upcorlando.org.

  • Family Advocates come alongside families to listen, help create and meet goals, and connect them to resources to move forward. They are primarily advocates and connectors, not providers. Their primary mission is to make disciples and love our neighbors in need.

  • Those in our community in need of an advocate (mentor/coach) to help them get “unstuck” in regards to finances, housing, relationships, or their spiritual journey.

    • Listen without judgment

    • Help create and meet goals

    • Connect to resources

    All with the goal to move past current barriers and toward healthy community, stable housing, financial stability, relational and spiritual growth.

    For more information please reach out to Karen Akers or Ben Miller.

Stephen Ministry

Stephen Ministry is a lay-caring ministry used by more than 13,000 congregations worldwide. Its primary mission is to bring help, hope, and healing to hurting people through emotional and spiritual care.

To request a Stephen Minister or for futher information, email stephenministry@upcorlando.org.

  • Our congregation’s Stephen Ministry equips lay people to provide one-to-one care for people in our congregation and community who are experiencing grief, health issues, divorce, spiritual crisis, job loss, infertility, or other life difficulties. Stephen Ministry is a confidential ministry; the identity of those receiving care and everything they discuss with a Stephen Minister remain private.

  • Stephen Ministry is for those in our congregation or community who are facing a crisis or difficulty and would benefit from a caring friend to walk alongside them and provide emotional and spiritual support.

  • A Stephen Minister is a member of our congregation who has been carefully selected to serve in this role because of his or her caregiving gifts. Each one has completed 50 hours of training in providing high-quality, distinctively Christian care. These lay people serve as a caring Christian friend who listens, cares, prays, supports, and encourages. They meet faithfully each week with their care receiver for about an hour as long as there is a need.

Redemeer Counseling

The UPC Counseling Ministry exists to shine the light of the gospel into all the places of our lives. UPC offers a counseling ministry because we believe that the gospel is a vibrant, healing force that can and should be applied to our life, relationships, thoughts, feelings and behaviors.

  • Many people in various stages of life have found counseling helpful. Counseling services are available for adults, adolescents and children. The need for counseling is dependent upon the issues involved. For some, a short stint in counseling helps provide perspective on a difficult topic. For others, more time is needed to help facilitate healing in the places that have hurt us for so long.

  • Our office is located at University Presbyterian Church in Orlando on Rouse Road between Colonial Drive and University Boulevard. The church is about 10 minutes from state roads 408 and 417. Clients may park in the front entrance of the Education Building in the small rectangular lot marked "Staff Parking Only." The waiting room is directly inside this entrance.

  • In order to setup an appointment or inquire about counseling, call us at 407-405-7677.