NEWS
Tea & Chat for healthcare chaplains - Thursdays at 4pm
Tea & Chat
Opportunity, hosted by the Free Church Group Secretary for Healthcare Chaplaincy, for chaplains meet together for informal support and conversation.
Zoom details are as follows:
Thursday 1st April, from 4-5pm. Zoom details: Meeting ID: 884 0930 9600; Passcode: 750073
(cover photo by 五玄土 ORIENTO @ Unsplash)
Distress, loss and bereavement - a support pack from MHA
As part of the regular mailings which our Healthcare Secretary, Mark Newitt, shares with healthcare chaplains, I am passing on a recent publication by MHA, which you may find useful. It is a report aimed at those who are relatives and friends of those living in care settings, but will be helpful to others too.
The support pack, entitled ‘Relative Recovery’, which you can access at link below covers things such as:
Distress, loss and bereavement
Grief
Supporting children
Guilt
Dementia
Two short orders of service for memorials
(cover photo courtesy of Cristian Newman at Unsplash)
If you are working as a chaplain in a healthcare setting, why not join us for a cuppa and a chat over Zoom?
Tea & Chat - for mutual support.
For the next few weeks, there will be sessions on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Everyone is welcome.
Tuesday: 16th March, from 4-5pm.
Zoom details: Meeting ID: 847 3526 3933; Passcode 499408
Wednesday: 24th March, from 4-5pm.
Zoom details: Meeting ID: 848 8989 8244; Passcode: 685885
Thursday: 11th March, 1st April, from 4-5pm.
Zoom details: Meeting ID: 884 0930 9600; Passcode: 750073
Come and share what is happening in your situation,
so that we can support one another.
Mark Newitt, Secretary for Healthcare Chaplaincy (pictured below), will host these events. Mark provides the leadership on Healthcare Chaplaincy work at a national level for the Free Churches as well as in a multi-faith context.
Rev Dr Mark Newitt
(cover photo courtesy of Jorge Garcia @ Unsplash)
We have a new Secretary for Healthcare Chaplaincy starting tomorrow!
Rev Meg Burton, who has been diligently serving for many months, as Secretary for Healthcare Chaplaincy for the FCG, is pleased to announce that her successor has been appointed. May we take this opportunity to thank Meg for all of her hard work in this role as we usher in the new Secretary. We will, in due course, have the chance to thank Meg more fully, but for now, here is some background on Meg’s successor!
It is Rev. Dr. Mark Newitt (pictured below). Mark is an Anglican and has been a chaplain in Sheffield for 15 years, working at both the Teaching Hospital and, more recently, at St Luke's Hospice. Meg writes, “like many of us, Mark has been influenced by, and has experience of, several different denominations, both while he was growing up (Salvation Army, Methodist and Baptist) and since working as a healthcare chaplain.”
Mark has been one of the leaders of the Yorkshire and Humber Chaplaincy Research Group and is also Book Review Editor of the journal Health and Social Care Chaplaincy. He brings a wealth of experience and fresh eyes to the role.
Mark will begin working with us tomorrow and Meg will leave once he has settled in, so there will be time for a hand-over. Congratulations, Mark, and welcome!
“Mark is looking forward to working with Free Church Healthcare chaplains and understands the theology, values and practice that have inspired the Free Churches for many centuries.”
Rev Dr Mark Newitt
Tea and chat - a time for healthcare chaplains to get together
Tea & Chat - for mutual support. A chance to chew over the week before you go home….. For the next few weeks, there will be sessions on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Everyone is welcome.
Tuesday: 23rd February, 16th March, from 4-5pm.
Zoom details: Meeting ID: 847 3526 3933; Passcode 499408
Wednesday: 10th February, 3rd March, 24th March, from 4-5pm.
Zoom details: Meeting ID: 848 8989 8244; Passcode: 685885
Thursday: 18th February, 11th March, 1st April, from 4-5pm.
Zoom details: Meeting ID: 884 0930 9600; Passcode: 750073
Come and share what is happening in your situation,
so that we can support one another.
Meg Burton, Secretary for Healthcare Chaplaincy (pictured below), will host these events. Meg provides the leadership on Healthcare Chaplaincy work at a national level for the Free Churches as well as in a multi-faith context.
(cover photo courtesy of Freddy Castro @ Unsplash)