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Director's Note
Thank you for your ministry of bringing Jesus to people during this difficult time in our world. You’re listening deeply to the spiritual needs of the people you serve. You’re adjusting and adapting your ministry. You are providing meaningful, creative spiritual care in a time of anxiety and fear for many institutions and their patients and clients. You’re extending the gospel into institutions and into the lives of people who are not able to set foot in a church or tap a stranger on the shoulder to ask for help....
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Prayer Request
Please pray for Rev. Dan Crapo and his family in northern Minneapolis as they see many familiar businesses and buildings set on fire and destroyed. Pray for justice and peace during this tense time.
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Prayer Request
Rev. Chris Fluit broke his shoulder and injured his arm more than a year ago. Please pray for patience during the long process of healing and for increased functioning of his wrist and fingers.
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Prayer Request
Rev. Richard & Lucy Silveira
Pray for Rev. Richard, retired Navy chaplain, and Lucy Silveira, who served on our advisory council, as they celebrate the life of Lucy’s mother, Esther Collins. See her obituary here. Esther welcomed many chaplains around her dinner table.
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Prayer Request
Rev. John Van Hemert, Seafarers ministry chaplain, requests prayer for his wife, Jean, who is recovering from pneumonia.
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Prayer Request
Rev. Harry & Norma Vriend
Norma (a former advisory board member) had emergency surgery for a burst abdominal aortic artery. Harry (a retired chaplain) has completed treatment for bladder cancer. Reach out to them at normavriend@yahoo.ca.
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News
Rev. Sarah Hoogendoorn serves at St. Cloud VA Health Care System, and she recently accepted a position to serve as their mental health staff chaplain.
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News
Ch (Capt) Raidel Leon Martinez serves in the Air Force and will be deployed to the Middle East in July.
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News
Rev. Benjamin Schaefer has been promoted to spiritual care manager for the northern and western ministries of the Ascension Michigan health care system.
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News
CH (MAJ) Timothy Won
CH (MAJ) Timothy Won has been serving as the garrison chaplain at USAG Yongsang-Casey since 2018. He and his family will be moving to Fort Bragg, North Carolina, where he will serve as chief of pastoral care at WOMACK Army Medical Center.
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New Faces
Carol Vander Ark Champion
Chaplaincy and Care also welcomes Carol Vander Ark Champion, who will be providing 24 hours per week of administrative support to our ministry.
Click here to read more about her ministry, and welcome her to the team!
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Farewell
Matt Hubers
Matt Hubers has served as our communications specialist for the past two years. We are so thankful for his creative work in sharing our ministry’s story and resources with the church. We wish him the best in his new endeavors!
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Chaplain Stories
- Rev. Dan Crapo, hospice chaplain, lives in Minneapolis, Minn., and shares his reflections on injustice and the civil unrest in his city.
- Six of our CRC chaplains share their reactions early in the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Rev. Kris Pikaart is serving vulnerable populations at Rehoboth McKinley Christian Health Care Services in Gallup, N.Mex., and her ministry is featured in CRC News and U.S. News.
- Rev. John De Vries, serving at Metro Health in Byron Center, Mich., officiated a wedding of two Metro employees in the hospital after their destination wedding plans were canceled.
- Rev. Timothy De Jonge serves as a spiritual health practitioner (hospital chaplain) at Kingston Health Sciences Centre in Kingston, Ont. He shares about his experiences in providing virtual pastoral care visits.
- A CRC chaplain shares a story of God transforming the ordinary into something extraordinary.
- Rev. Karl Van Harn, CRC chaplain and clinical educator, shares “A Prayer for Perseverance During the Pandemic.”
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September 24-26, 2020
In light of COVID-19 safety concerns for large gatherings, we are canceling our in-person training for 2020. Details to come.
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Resources
Resources to help us grow in our knowledge, empathy, and advocacy.
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Resources
We continue to provide individual pastoral care, weekly virtual prayer support, and gather resources to our chaplains who serve on the frontlines.
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November 22, 2020
Resources are available including a new video featuring Rev. Elizabeth Guillaume-Koene, who works as a long-term care chaplain in Durham, Ontario.
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United States/Canada Relations
Chaplaincy and Care Ministry is committed to working throughout the U.S. and Canada to provide ministry to our wide array of chaplains serving in diverse institutions and regions. At this time, we do not anticipate significant changes on what our ministry provides to our chaplains in the U.S. and Canada. We expect during the upcoming months to have a more formalized agreement on how we minister specifically within each country. Our ministry is blessed with incredible engagement on the part of our chaplains on both sides of the border, and we are committed to doing ministry together.
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