NEWS
FURTHER RESOURCES TO HELP YOU IN YOUR MINISTRY
Each week, our very own Revd Meg Burton, Secretary for Healthcare Chaplaincy for the Free Churches, gathers and shares a range of supportive and informative communications with Healthcare Chaplains.
Although these are primarily aimed at those working in healthcare chaplaincy, many others may find the content encouraging and helpful in their life and ministry.
There is:
Fifty ways to take a break
Link to Interfaith week event on 11th Nov
Link to Post Grad Certificate in Psycho-Spiritual Care
You can find out more and explore these reflections and materials HERE.
Meg provides the leadership on Healthcare Chaplaincy work at a national level for the Free Churches as well as in a multi-faith context.
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Tea and chat - a get together for healthcare chaplains - dates for the rest of the year!
Rev Meg Burton, Secretary for Healthcare chaplaincy, warmly invites you to join her and other chaplains from across the sector, for Tea and Chat Zoom sessions - 3.30 to 4.30pm.
These are the dates for the rest of the year:
Friday 23rd October
Wednesday 28th October
Friday 6th November
Wednesday 11th November
Friday 20th November
Wednesday 25th November
Friday 4th December
Wednesday 9th December
Friday 18th December
Wednesday 23rd December
Wednesday 30th December
Friday Zoom Meeting ID:870 5327 8978 Password: 669993
Wednesday Zoom Meeting ID: 892 5230 8978 Password: 956743
To read more about the work of the Free Churches with healthcare chaplaincy:
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Fridays at 3.30pm - tea and chat for healthcare chaplains
As usual, we are pleased to say that Rev Meg Burton (pictured below) invites healthcare chaplains for Tea and Chat!
Every Friday afternoon between 3.30pm and 4.30pm.
Feel free to join for as short or as long a time as you wish.
A chance to 'chew the cud' about your week before going home for the weekend or a chat about anything.
Zoom meeting ID: 870 5327 8978.
Password: 669993
(photo courtesy of Miti at Unsplash)
Rev Meg Burton - SECRETARY FOR HEALTHCARE CHAPLAINCY, FREE CHURCHES
Trauma and Response: A Theological Reflection, Free Webinar
Free Church Healthcare Chaplains Annual Study Day is an opportunity to step back, draw breath and reflect on the impact of the experience of trauma.
Wed, 4 November 2020
14:00 – 16:00 GMT
The Free Churches Group is hosting the Annual Healthcare Chaplains Study Day on the subject, "Trauma and Response: a theological reflection". This is an opportunity to step back, draw breath and reflect on the impact of the experience of trauma. Our thoughts will be led by Rev Sue Shortman, a Methodist Minister in the Birmingham District, with opportunities for discussion in break-out groups.
This event is organised by the Healthcare Chaplaincy Steering Committee on behalf of the Free Churches Group and is aimed at Free Church Chaplains, but others of different denominations, faith/belief groups, are welcome to attend.
This event will be held via Zoom. Booking is now open via Eventbrite here.
Login information will be sent to you by email nearer the time. For more information please contact Revd Meg Burton at meg.burton@freechurches.org.uk
Programme details:
2:00pm Gathering and opening devotions
Song Be Still Hillsong Worship
2:15pm Session 1 Trauma and response
Looking at the story of Noah, particularly his wife and her role in the call they received and thinking about our response to trauma.
10 minutes break out session for Trauma and response
2:50pm Session 2 Waiting and surviving
How do we allow ourselves time to stop and wait and in that waiting find strategies for surviving, using Psalm 62 and a poem.
10 minutes break out session for Waiting and surviving
3:20pm Session 3 Transformation
Using the story of Pentecost and the experience of the disciples how are we transformed through our experiences?
10 minutes break out session for Transformation
3:45pm Closing devotions
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Hope in a Crisis... a free booklet
Vivienne Manley, a Specialist Maternity Services & Palliative Care Services Chaplain, has shared a booklet (recently updated) entitled Hope in a Crisis, with our Secretary for Healthcare Chaplaincy, Revd Meg Burton.
The booklet has been carefully put together and sensitively written; it has already been a great comfort to many.
Concerning the booklet, Revd Ian Inglis (a hospital chaplain) writes: “It’s such a beautifully presented booklet and [healthcare] staff have found it a joy and inspiration, even when they personally haven’t lost someone, but they are coping with the pain, suffering and loss of patients on the wards so much. I suspect that some have also found the booklets helpful when we have lost staff members as well.”
We are grateful to Vivienne for sharing this resource with us. Please feel free to share this booklet and may it be a comfort to those it reaches.
(photo courtesy of John Towner at Unsplash)