Pastoral care ministry (Contact:
Jill Muntz) Lay pastoral caregivers provide spiritual
support to fellow parishioners in crisis. The caregiver offers a hand
to hold and a heart to care. Caregivers cannot eliminate problems,
but provide prayerful companionship to those confronting them.
Pastoral Care is a ministry of Presence -- simple and profound.
Healing prayer ministry (Contact: Bob
Strauss, Susie Hansen) Those who are in the healing prayer
ministry offer prayers for healing with the laying on of hands during
the Communion Service at the 10 am service on Sunday. This is
available in the chapel near the parish hall after receiving
communion. Come on behalf of yourself or another. If prayers are
needed at another time please call anyone who is in this ministry.
Prayer chain ministry (Contact: Doris
Zappala) The important practice of intercessory prayer --
prayer for others -- finds expression in the St. Thomas Church Prayer
Chain. We pray daily for those who we have been asked to pray for.
These may be parishioners, friends, relatives, and others in the wider
community. Prayer Chain requests are at the church chapel and at
Edgerton House in St. Christopher's Chapel. The first names are
usually read during the Prayers of the People on Sundays. The names
are also in the bulletin for those who would like to pray for them
during the week.
Foyer groups (Contact: Alice
Dantos) The purpose of the foyer dinners is to convene
parishioners for social interaction and good food. The meals are
potluck, and groups of interested people are randomly grouped.
Sunday coffee hours (Contact: Sally
Hillman Redman) We enjoy coffee, food, and fellowship
together in the parish hall after the 10 am service. Parishioners
volunteer as hosts.
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