{"id":578,"date":"2014-12-30T22:43:48","date_gmt":"2014-12-31T07:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=578"},"modified":"2014-12-31T02:44:46","modified_gmt":"2014-12-31T11:44:46","slug":"dec-30-excited-to-pray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=578","title":{"rendered":"Dec. 30 – Excited to Pray"},"content":{"rendered":"
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At our hospital we utilize lay people to be \u201cPrayer Partners\u201d.\u00a0 These people are assigned to our Same Day Surgery, Cancer Center, and Outpatient Dialysis Units.\u00a0 Their task is an important one but yet it is so simple.\u00a0 They approach patients and ask if they would like to talk or have prayer as they are waiting.\u00a0 Patients respond positively to these offers of support in these settings.\u00a0 The reason this is a simple ministry for our volunteers is that they have a strong faith and are already comfortable meeting strangers and praying publicly before they are placed in this role.\u00a0 This week we had a new person apply for this volunteer ministry.\u00a0 It was exciting to see the volunteer explain the joy received in the process of praying for and with others.\u00a0 In the past several months I had prayed for the spouse of this volunteer during the spouses inpatient admission and that encounter prompted the interest in being a Prayer Partner.\u00a0 That is the great dynamic about ministry, when people experience it then they desire to be a part of it.\u00a0 It is one of those things where the experience of the moment is much more powerful than simply reading a description of the moment like you are doing now.\u00a0 I share this because it brightens my day when other people want to volunteer their time to help us provide pastoral care to our patients.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  At our hospital we utilize lay people to be \u201cPrayer Partners\u201d.\u00a0 These people are assigned to our Same Day Surgery, Cancer Center, and Outpatient Dialysis Units.\u00a0 Their task is an important one but yet it is so simple.\u00a0 They approach patients and ask if they would like to talk or have prayer as they … Continue reading Dec. 30 – Excited to Pray<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578","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=578"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":580,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578\/revisions\/580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}