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As usual, we are pleased to say that Rev Meg Burton (pictured below) invites healthcare chaplains for Tea and Chat!
Every Friday afternoon between 3.30pm and 4.30pm.
Feel free to join for as short or as long a time as you wish.
A chance to 'chew the cud' about your week before going home for the weekend or a chat about anything.
Zoom meeting ID: 870 5327 8978.
Password: 669993
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Rev Meg Burton - SECRETARY FOR HEALTHCARE CHAPLAINCY, FREE CHURCHES
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
Programme details:
2:00pm Gathering and opening devotions
Song Be Still Hillsong Worship
2:15pm Session 1 Trauma and response
Looking at the story of Noah, particularly his wife and her role in the call they received and thinking about our response to trauma.
10 minutes break out session for Trauma and response
2:50pm Session 2 Waiting and surviving
How do we allow ourselves time to stop and wait and in that waiting find strategies for surviving, using Psalm 62 and a poem.
10 minutes break out session for Waiting and surviving
3:20pm Session 3 Transformation
Using the story of Pentecost and the experience of the disciples how are we transformed through our experiences?
10 minutes break out session for Transformation
3:45pm Closing devotions
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Vivienne Manley, a Specialist Maternity Services & Palliative Care Services Chaplain, has shared a booklet (recently updated) entitled Hope in a 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.
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Tea and Chat! Rev Meg Burton, the Free Churches Secretary for Healthcare invites you…
Every Friday afternoon between 3.30pm and 4.30pm.
Feel free to join for as short or as long a time as you wish.
A chance to 'chew the cud' about your week before going home for the weekend or a chat about anything.
Zoom meeting ID: 870 5327 8978. Password: 669993
You can find out more about the work the Free Churches does in the field of healthcare and download helpful resources HERE.
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Each week, our very own 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.
There is:
A guided meditation (in English and German)
Enhancing spiritual care through chaplaincy research (latest newsletter)
A prayer for these times, based on Ecclesiastes 3:5b
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.
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