graduates to a few who had not even completed high school, years of experience to those relatively new to the ministry. The questionnaire asked them to make two lists, one in order of frequency and the other in order of intensity of what they judged to be pastoral emergencies in their ministry. For the most part, there were no surprises. The cluster of items around death (dying, suicide, life-threatening illness, accidents and operations, and bereavement) were at the top of the lists in both frequency