{"id":48,"date":"2014-05-21T16:40:22","date_gmt":"2014-05-22T01:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=48"},"modified":"2014-05-21T16:40:22","modified_gmt":"2014-05-22T01:40:22","slug":"may-21-the-seasons-are-upon-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=48","title":{"rendered":"May 21 – The Seasons are Upon Us!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The graphic above was posted on Twitter by our denominational headquarters in Nashville, TN.\u00a0 It made me laugh because now that I am in extension ministry I am not wondering if the District Superintendent will suddenly call me to tell I have a new church I will be moving to in July.\u00a0 Also the Annual Conference session does not impact my ministry in healthcare as dramatically as it did when I served local churches.\u00a0 The things we talk about at Annual Conference just are not as relevant to patients as they are to church members.\u00a0 Also at the hospital United Methodist members are a small percentage of the total number of patients.\u00a0 In any local United Methodist Church 90% or more of those present are generally members of the United Methodist Church.<\/p>\n

Extension ministry does take the vital ministry of the church from inside the walls of the church and move it into a setting where I can on a daily basis interact with people who have no church affiliation or regular church attendance pattern.\u00a0 The conversations I am able to have with patients about why they believe in God but are not motivated to be a part of the local church (any denomination) are interesting.\u00a0 Some have gotten angry and stopped attending.\u00a0 Some have just gotten out of the habit of attending.\u00a0 Some have found the services don’t have meaning to them.\u00a0 Even with all these reasons for not attending church, patients are very happy when I offer to pray for them.\u00a0 Chaplaincy gives me the opportunity to pray with people and present the church in a way where they can see me follow the example of Christ in taking the message into the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The graphic above was posted on Twitter by our denominational headquarters in Nashville, TN.\u00a0 It made me laugh because now that I am in extension ministry I am not wondering if the District Superintendent will suddenly call me to tell I have a new church I will be moving to in July.\u00a0 Also the Annual … Continue reading May 21 – The Seasons are Upon Us!<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions\/50"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}