Types of Conflicts that Require Management by Pastoral Counseling in the Mainstream and Pentecostal Churches in Nakuru County of Kenya

TYPES OF CONFLICTS THAT REQUIRE MANAGEMENT BY PASTORAL COUNSELING IN THE MAINSTREAM AND PENTECOSTAL CHURCHES IN NAKURU COUNTY OF KENYA Christine Julie Nabwire (Kibabii University), Micah Chepchieng, Aggrey Sindabi (Egerton University), Risper Wepukhulu ( Kibabii university), The study assessed the types of conflicts that require Pastoral Counseling in the Mainstream and Pentecostal churches of Nakuru County of Kenya. The study adopted an ex post facto research design and it targeted all the Mainstream and Pentecostal churches of Nakuru County. Simple random sampling was used to select 4 churches, 2 Mainstream and 2 Pentecostal. The congregants were chosen from the selected churches. A sample of 364 church members was selected through stratified sampling procedure. The data was processed and analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics with the aid of Statistical Package for Social Sciences windows 20.0. The study revealed that there were a number of conflicts experienced by congregants in the Mainstream and Pentecostal churches that require professional Pastoral Counseling.