Congregational Care
Parish Nursing
RNs can volunteer for the Parish Nursing program. Activities include:
- Health screenings,
- patient advocating,
- visiting ill and shut-in,
- wellness programs and
- any other whole person health promoting and disease prevention.
Parish nursing focuses on the whole person of every age -- body, mind and spirit.
Health Ministry
Contact: Maritta Fink
Calling all physicians, pharmacists, social workers, dietitians, physical therapists, any health professional or health enthusiast, interested in serving on an advisory board (with minimal time commitment). Goal is to promote
- "whole person health"
- provide emotional support
- spiritual support for the congregation and surrounding community.
The health ministry team works in conjuction with the Parish Nursing program.
Contact: Millard/Carol Lee
Bob/Bonnie Usher
Roger/Sandy Murphy
When: 4th Tuesday of each month at 7pm
Where: Room 201
This group is open to all who have been affected by cancer or other serious health situations in any way. If you are coping with, recovering from or a survivor of any serious or chronic health situation or are a care giver, please come and be strengthened by fellowship and prayer.
Our meetings provide an opportunity to share personal health victories and obstacles. Agenda includes an opening and closing prayer, a brief bible study/discussion of the meeting host's choice, a snack, and an informal update on how people are doing.
Every few months, a special informational meeting is scheduled to cover a specific topic. In the past, we have heard more about topics such as Hospice Care, Radiation, and Skin Cancer. If you want to know more about what the atmosphere of the meetings are like without putting your foot through the door, give one of the contacts listed above a call and they will be happy to provide more information. If you have a suggestion for a topic, let us know!
Funeral Luncheons
Contact: Shari Clark
Share the gift of Christian hospitality with those who are grieving. Help to prepare, set-up, serve and/or clean up for receptions following funerals and memorial services.
Contact: Carole Becker
When: 10 Weeks, Tuesdays, Sept. 23 - Dec. 4
6:30-8:00pm
Where: LIFE Building
The Good Grief Support Group is:
- A place where people come together to work on and understand the consequences and pain of a life change.
- A safe place where you can share your story, your struggles, your concerns.
- A forum where you have the freedom to ask the big questions.
- A gathering where you can safely search for your own answers, with the support of others.
- Not a therapy group….but therapeutic!
- Loving, caring, generous, educational, healing.
- Very often FUN!
When attempting to describe the depth of emotion we experience when someone we love dies, we struggle to put our sorrow and pain into words and into a context we can understand. Whether you are recently bereaved or experiencing the pain of long-standing grief, Good Grief is provided to give you the encouragement needed to help you move forward with your changed lives.
10 simple weeks! We will gather around the “kitchen table” in the LIFE Building every Tuesday 6:30 – 8:00 p.m. beginning April 1st and concluding June 3rd.
There is no cost to you. Pray and then plan to participate. Invite a loved one, friend or neighbor! Call the church office at 602.866.9191 to say “Thank you; I want to be included.”
