Trauma and Response: A Theological Reflection, Free Webinar

Free Church Healthcare Chaplains Annual Study Day is an opportunity to step back, draw breath and reflect on the impact of the experience of trauma.

Wed, 4 November 2020
14:00 – 16:00 GMT

The Free Churches Group is hosting the Annual Healthcare Chaplains Study Day on the subject, "Trauma and Response: a theological reflection". This is an opportunity to step back, draw breath and reflect on the impact of the experience of trauma. Our thoughts will be led by Rev Sue Shortman, a Methodist Minister in the Birmingham District, with opportunities for discussion in break-out groups.

This event is organised by the Healthcare Chaplaincy Steering Committee on behalf of the Free Churches Group and is aimed at Free Church Chaplains, but others of different denominations, faith/belief groups, are welcome to attend.

This event will be held via Zoom. Booking is now open via Eventbrite here.

Login information will be sent to you by email nearer the time. For more information please contact Revd Meg Burton at meg.burton@freechurches.org.uk

Photo courtesy of Katherine McCormack at Unsplash.

Working as a healthcare chaplain? Come along for a cuppa and catch up, online this Friday

There’s a lot going on for us all at the moment and finding space to chat and relax together can be challenging. Rev Meg Burton invites you to have a get together with herself and other chaplains, so bring a cuppa …

Join us if you can!

Meg, the Free Churches Secretary for Healthcare invites you each Friday at 3.30-4.30pm through Zoom. Healthcare chaplains welcome!

Zoom Meeting ID:870 5327 8978  Password: 669993

Meg says, “I will be there between 3.30 and 4.30pm if anyone would like to join me for an informal chat about anything; a chance to get together and chew over the week before you go home.”

You can find out more about the work the Free Churches does in the field of healthcare and download helpful resources HERE.

(photo courtesy of Brigitte Tohm at Unsplash)

FCG is seeking to appoint a new Secretary for Healthcare Chaplaincy

We are seeking to appoint a new Secretary for Healthcare Chaplaincy - for further information and for details on how to apply please see HERE. The closing date is on 21st September. Interviews will be during week commencing 12th October.

Our aim is to provide support to healthcare chaplains from the Free Churches and to grow and maintain effective links with them, chaplains of other denominations, faith and belief groups in the UK and NHS England.

We are looking for a Secretary for Healthcare Chaplaincy (working part-time; 21 hrs p.w.) to provide leadership in this field. At this time of unprecedented change, it is an opportunity to strengthen and re-shape how the Free Churches engage in healthcare chaplaincy.

For further information

Please feel free to share this vacancy across your network and to other interested parties. Thanks!

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(photo courtesy of Christina @ wocintechchat.com at Unsplash)

Healthcare chaplains - on Zoom with cuppa for chat - Friday afternoons

There’s a lot going on for us all at the moment and finding space to chat and relax together can be challenging. Rev Meg Burton invites you to have a get together with herself and other chaplains, so bring a cuppa …

Join us if you can!

Meg, the Free Churches Secretary for Healthcare invites you each Friday at 4pm through Zoom. Healthcare chaplains welcome!

Zoom Meeting ID:870 5327 8978  Password: 669993

Meg says, “I will be there between 3.30 and 4.30pm if anyone would like to join me

for an informal chat about anything;

a chance to get together and chew over the week before you go home.”

You can find out more about the work the Free Churches does in the field of healthcare and download helpful resources HERE.

(photo courtesy of Nathan Dumlao at Unsplash)

A deeply poignant prayer and a personal reflection from a hospital chaplain... and more

A deeply poignant prayer and a personal reflection from a hospital chaplain - these are among the latest updates on the healthcare page this week…

May these be a blessing, a comfort and an encouragement to you in your ministry and Christian life…

There is:

• A prayer - Gentle Presence

• Reflections from a lead chaplain in a hospital

• A number of personal reflections from various healthcare chaplains

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

Each week, Revd Meg Burton, Secretary for Healthcare Chaplaincy for the Free Churches, gathers and shares 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.

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 Reign Abarintos @ Unsplash)