Family visitation Why is it important? It is important because it is a means of giving spiritual care. This article explains the preparation needed for house visitation, and the nature of conversation during home visitation. 

Pastors and elders can make house visitation fruitful and meaningful by asking relevant questions to their members. This article gives some questions to ask during home visitation with attention to personal, family and corporate worship. 

This article explains the obligations of office-bearers in house visitation. It shows the manner in which office-bearers are to carry out these obligations in home visits.

Why is family visitation important? This article considers the necessity of house visitation, that it is rooted in God’s command, is for the welfare of the church and for the care that the office-bearers are to bring.

Why is family visitation important? This article gives the historical development of house visitation, with reference to the decision of the Synod of Dort on home visits.

Within the Reformed tradition home visitation has served as a means to carry out the task of the office bearers. This article explains the history of this tradition, and then looks at the relationship of house visitation and the Lord’s Supper. Can it be a means of fencing the table?

Part of the task of elders in caring for the church is visiting the sick. In this article the author shows why such a house visitation is needed, and what should be the purpose of it. The author discusses the role of the elder in bringing the Word and praying for healing for the sick.

This article looks at the objections and the purpose and importance of house visitation by the elders in a church.