Encouragement

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Chaplain Dan's Ministry Letter
at
Hemet Valley Medical Center

Dear Friends & Supporters:

The Lord has opened the doors for us to minister in rest homes as well as the hospital. It is a good way for people to get to know me as a chaplain so they are not so afraid when they have to go to the hospital. Also, it takes the ministry to them instead of waiting for them to come to the hospital for ministry.

Cathie, my sister Patti, a woman named Jean from our Christian Celebration Church and I go seven or more places each month to minister in song. I play the accordion, we all sing, and various instruments are slowly being added like the harmonica and keyboard, and guitar. Jean whistles tunes as well.

Cathie and I also sing and play instruments at Behavioral Health and Subacute inside the hospital campus. We appreciate your prayers for this ministry and the strength and resources to do what needs to be done. We thank you so much.

Each of us has opportunities to minister to others but we don't always recognize them for whatever reason. It may be an encouraging word or a smile, praying for someone right on the spot instead of waiting and possibly forgetting. A lady at one of the rest homes we sing at came up to me after the program and asked for prayer for her husband Bill who is not doing well at this time. It is a comfort to people to pray with them right away. Of course, not everyone wants to be prayed for in the open but some will, the rest you can pray for later.

We are trained, as chaplains, to ask people what they would like prayer about, and surprisingly many people ask for prayer for others even though they are laid up in the hospital. If we don't ask this question, we can sometimes miss the mark of what they really need, because they have a different idea than we do.

It also shows someone you care when you ask what they would like prayer for. It is so easy to say we will pray for someone, but sometimes it can be a way of ending a conversation instead of caring for the person.

Prayer Requests

Cathie's Mom, Edith, fell the other day and broke her pelvis. She will be hospitalized for a while. Pray for her as well as Raymond, her husband, and their family.

In His Love,



Chaplain Dan Langerock

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