PASTORAL CARE

Support Ministries:

• Lay Eucharist Ministers are trained lay ministers who visit the homebound to bring prayer and the sacrament of Holy Communion.
• Prayer Chain Ministry is a volunteer group who pray for members of the congregation, their families, friends, or colleagues struggling with serious illness, crisis, or difficult life experiences.
• Pay It Forward is a confidential support ministry that strives to show Christ's love by caring for one another in times of need or crisis such as illness, birth, unemployment, mourning, divorce. This is accomplished through providing meals, transportation, and any other practical assistance.
• Prayer Shawl Ministry is a small group who make shawls in prayer as a physical sign of God's ever-present love and caring and are given to those in need of God's comfort. We meet in the narthex at 9:15 a.m. the third Sunday of every month to swap patterns, bless completed shawls and pray. Please join us!
• Laying-on of Hands
  Since 2006 the Healing Ministry Team of the Parish Healthcare Ministry has been offer anointing along with the laying-on of hands during contemporary services. Anointing with oil is a symbol of our sacred connection to God and was used by the elders of the early church in communion with prayers for healing. (James 5:14)