Nursing Home Ministry

Back to Basics in Nursing Home Ministry

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It takes time to get a ship back out to sea after it has been ties up at the dock for a while. Maybe some of you are going through this process in your place of service. I would love to hear how God is helping some of you in this. Have a blessed week all!

pastorpete51's avatarWalking With Lambs

Shepherd the flock of God that is among you, exercising oversight,not under compulsion, but willingly, as God would have you;not for shameful gain, but eagerly – 1 Peter 5:2 ESV

After a three week pause due to both my wife and I contracting this last form of Covid, I was delighted to get back visiting a couple of the facilities this week. The memory care wing of one home was open for business as usual, but the dining room where we normally meet at another was still closed due to their own outbreak. Thankfully with the aid of an n-95 mask and the kind guidance of one of the nurses I was shepherded to various individual rooms to visit. The experience was exhausting but rewarding and it brought me back to those first few years, when I either visited very small facilities or in private rooms of people in larger…

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New Mercies Every Morning!

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Through the Lord’s mercies we are not consumed, Because His compassions fail not. They are new every morning; Great is Your faithfulness. “The Lord is my portion,” says my soul, “Therefore I hope in Him!” Lamentations 3:22-24 NKJV

I was so happy to be back with my friends in the memory care wing at Sunshine Home this morning. We not only had everyone show up, but they really sang! Though we were only shut down for three weeks, it felt like three months. I am so grateful to God for His great mercies and delighted to sing this hymn with my brothers and sisters. People say they are in memory care, but they remember both the words and the great faithfulness of our Father! And why are His mercies new every morning? Because every day we mess up!! 

Mother Teresa said, "Bless those who curse you, think what they would say if they knew the truth."

But God knows the whole truth about us and still He offers 
His mercies new every morning because of His love!