Tea and cake - get together online Fridays at 4pm

Revd Meg Burton, the Free Churches Secretary for Healthcare, has got the kettle on! Meg would like to invite you to bring a cuppa and have a get-together each Friday at 4pm through Zoom. Healthcare chaplains welcome!

There’s a lot going on for us all at the moment and finding space to chat and relax together can be challenging. Often things come up in our working week we want to share or we might just appreciate a friendly face and a cuppa on a Friday… so here’s the link. Join us if you can!

Zoom Meeting ID: 819 1769 4407  Password: 585847

Meg says, “I will be there between 4pm and 5pm if anyone would like to join me for an informal chat about anything.”

(photo courtesy of Rumman Amin at Unsplash)

Free webinar: Role of Faiths & Non-Faith in the Emergence of Healthcare from this Pandemic

This free event is coming up soon!

Title: Role of Faiths & Non-Faith in the Emergence of Healthcare from this Pandemic

When: July 1st 14.00-16.30

Further information on hosts of event:

• Great Ormond St Hospital Paediatric Bioethics Centre & Chaplaincy

• UK Paediatric Chaplaincy Group

• Mission and Public Affairs Department of the Church of England

—-

The event is free but registration is required: HERE

—-

(image courtesy of Guilherme Stecanella at Unsplash)

SOME MORE RESOURCES SHARED HERE, TO SUPPORT YOU IN YOUR MINISTRY...

Revd Meg Burton, Secretary for Healthcare Chaplaincy for the Free Churches, has been writing, gathering in, compiling and sharing a range of supportive and informative communications with Healthcare Chaplains. Although these are primarily aimed at those working in healthcare chaplaincy, many others may find the content encouraging and helpful in their life and ministry.

There is:

• Hope in Crisis

• Bereavement Toolkit [in the context of COVID-19]

• Losing a colleague during the Coronavirus outbreak (from NHS England)

• Leading during bereavement and complex grief (NHS guidance)

You can find out more and explore these reflections and materials HERE.

Meg provides the leadership on Healthcare Chaplaincy work at a national level for the Free Churches as well as in a multi-faith context.

(photo courtesy of Imam Abiyyu at Unsplash)

Hope in Crisis

Vivienne Manley, a Specialist Maternity Services & Palliative Care Services Chaplain, has shared a newly produced booklet, entitled Hope in Crisis, with our Secretary for Healthcare Chaplaincy, Revd Meg Burton.

The booklet has been carefully put together and sensitively written; it has already been a great comfort to many.

Concerning the booklet, Revd Ian Inglis (a hospital chaplain) writes: “It’s such a beautifully presented booklet and [healthcare] staff have found it a joy and inspiration, even when they personally haven’t lost someone, but they are coping with the pain, suffering and loss of patients on the wards so much.  I suspect that some have also found the booklets helpful when we have lost staff members as well.”

We are grateful to Vivienne for sharing this resource with us. Please feel free to share this booklet and may it be a comfort to those it reaches.

(photo courtesy of Arto Marttinen at Unsplash)

Some more resources shared here, to support you in your ministry...

Revd Meg Burton, Secretary for Healthcare Chaplaincy for the Free Churches, has been writing, gathering in, compiling and sharing a range of supportive and informative communications with Healthcare Chaplains. Although these are primarily aimed at those working in healthcare chaplaincy, many others may find the content encouraging and helpful in their life and ministry.

There is:

an adaptation of Psalm 23 for health staff;

a poem based on the hymn ‘I cannot tell’;

a poignant reflection entitled ‘The visitor’.

You can find out more and explore these reflections and materials HERE.

Meg provides the leadership on Healthcare Chaplaincy work at a national level for the Free Churches as well as in a multi-faith context.

(photo courtesy of Flash Alexander at Unsplash)