Why Hospital Calls Matter!!!
I don't hear much in youth ministry about those making hospital calls, and rarer still do I read on blogs or on leadership other than chaplains doing the Hospital calling. Hospital Calls matter!! Why? 1. It helps let the people in your congregation know you care. 2. It gets you out into the community. I can't tell you how often I meet someone in the community just by going to the hospital. 3. It helps by just listening. Listening to people's stories. 4. It gives opportunity to share Jesus - to pray, and sit and be an example. 5. It helps you to be a life-long learner. I've done a Ground Rounds (Hospital Tour and Seminar series) which helps and currently doing some CPE (Clinical Pastoral Education) this Spring in a course of Clinical Pastoral Visitation. 6. It gives opportunity to share of yourself. And know yourself and limitations. 7. It gives you an opportunity to encourage. Thank the Doctors and Nurses for being the healing hands of Jesus. Ask that the Great Physicia