The General Secretary of the Methodist Church of Great Britain recently wrote about the ministry of chaplaincy in the Methodist Recorder. During the article, Martyn Atkins talks about the Chaplaincy Development Project and its vision to see chaplaincy everywhere.
Thanks to our friends at the Methodist Recorder for giving us permission to share the article with you!
Download the PDF: Chaplaincy For Everyone by Revd Canon Dr Martyn Atkins
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Chaplains at the Races!
Workplace Chaplain Revd Graham Locking will be on Channel 4′s ‘Morning Line’ programme this coming Saturday, 18 June.
Graham will be talking about chaplaincy in horse racing. Programme starts 7.55am.
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Thanks to Martyn for – as always – an excellent perspective.
As a hospital Chaplain, I feel so incredibly blessed to have the privilege of ministering to patients and families of all faiths and none in the hour of their deepest need.
I have had so many wonderful conversations with people about the character of God, about the spirituality of death and many other important spiritual topics. I have heard confessions, anointed the sick, baptised babies and dying adults. I have prayed with Christians, Jews, Muslims and even a Zoroastrian family and blessed a surgery suite.
Chaplaincy truly is “radically inclusive, ecumenical and multifaith” and it gives one an opportunity to share God with all people.
The huge blessing of hospital chaplaincy is that if you only keep your spiritual eyes open a little bit, it’s hard to miss God at work every day.
Thanks, as ever, Pam for your insights and ministry.
I can support Pam,s experience with patients and families. Please may I hear how hospital chaplaincy is available to and for those in the clinical and administration work of the hospital. Does chaplaincy relate to them or only to those having to be in hospital?
Thanks
Hospital chaplains do serve the wider community of the clinical and administration colleagues. I’ve chatted on corridors, over the lunch table, at nurses’ stations on the ward, led memorial events for colleagues who have died. One of our team, once a senior nurse in the hospital, has a particular ministry of support to a number of clinical staff. Our Chaplaincy holds an Armistice Day event which is well attended by admin staff and a Hospital Carol Service (attendance growing). We take carol singers around the wards on Christmas Eve – always appreciated by staff including those on Intensive Care and Theatres.