Through love be servants of one another…Romans 5:13

Our Pastoral Care Ministry coordinates lay pastoral activities in our parish: visiting the sick, sending cards and flowers to people who are hospitalized, coordinating meals for families in crisis, and coordinating nursing home services. This commission also is responsible for coordinating various pastoral functions such as funeral receptions, overseeing Nursing Home services and visitations, and the scheduling of our lay Eucharistic Ministers.

Services include (click any item below to learn more):

.Assisted Living & Nursing Rehab Facility Visitation

Visits by our priest, a musician, and a reader/chalicer to local nursing homes each month.

.Prayer Shawl

Members of this committee knit and crochet shawls for anyone that is in need of “God Hugs”; to comfort in times of grief and hardship, and also in times of celebration and joy.  The prayer shawls are created to wrap snuggly around anyone’s shoulders.

How can you help?

  1. Call the office or get in contact with someone on this committee if you or someone you know is in need of a prayer shawl.
  2. Fill out a card located in the pews and let us know if someone might need a “God Hug”.
  3. Do you knit or crochet?????  Are you able to provide one or two shawls a year????  If so, contact the office and let us know!  

.Lay Home Communions

To visit members of St. Peter’s Church who are homebound due to illness, surgery, accidents or other circumstances and to provide comfort, prayer and communion in their homes, hospitals or care facilities.

How can you help?

  1. Contact the office or any of the members if you or someone you know would like to have a prayer visit.
  2. Consider assisting one of the Lay Persons on their visit.
  3. Sign up for the Safe Church Course when offered and become a full member of this special ministry!

.Card Ministry

Sometimes, just to open a card and see that someone has been thinking of you is all it takes to break a smile.  This very special committee wants members of St. Peter’s to know that we are thinking of them and sending prayers their way if they are sick, hospitalized, have had surgery, if they have not been able to make it to church for some reason, if they have lost a loved one, it they are celebrating the birth of a baby, or just to wish them a happy birthday.

How can you help?

  1. Contact the office or a member of this committee if you or someone you know is in need of a card.
  2. Consider donating some blank cards or stamps.
  3. Have a knack for words?  How about joining this committee and sending out a few cards a month?