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Where a need is determined, St. Paul’s immediately goes to work to ...
- provide meals to help an individual or family get through a difficult time.
- provide drivers who can offer a ride to church, to appointments, to the grocery store or wherever a person might need to be driven.
- provide support to one another and the community through a very active prayer chain where we share joys and concerns.
- provide prayer shawls that are knitted and/or crocheted by individuals and given to persons who need to be wrapped in God’s love while recuperating in the hospital, in a rehabilitation facility, in a nursing home, or shawls can be given for joyous occasions, such as to a family with a new baby.
Many caring groups actively provide support at St. Paul’s, each available to a need, a request ...
- our Shepherding program is the personal communication arm to the congregation. Divided into small groups, church members receive regular communication from their shepherd.
- the Sunshine Ladies whose mission work is their presence in the local nursing homes, taking gifts and God’s love to the residents.
- our Parish Nurse works closely with the Pastor and provides guidance and inspiration for wholeness of body as well as a resource for those with medical needs.
- visitation to our sick and shut-ins is carried out routinely by our Pastor, our Parish Nurse, the Sunshine Ladies and lay persons, all of whom provide comfort, inspiration and hope to those in need.
- O.W.L.S. (On With Life Seniors) is a very active group of retired persons who enjoy socializing regularly by meeting for lunch and/or dinners at a local restaurant, go to the movies, just being together.
- Widow/Widowers Grief Support group actively meets four to five times a year in an effort to lend support to each other.
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