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Lummi Island Parish Nurses focus on wellness and disease prevention using a
whole-person, (body, mind, and spirit), approach to health care. We define
health as integrated wholeness and harmony with self, others, the
environment, and God.
We are professional nurses who use advanced knowledge and skills to promote
wellness and optimal health and healing in individuals, families and the faith
community. The promotion of
wellness is carried out by educating the congregation and community, by raising the consciousness level of
the parish community, and by
fostering an understanding of the interrelation of lifestyle, personal habit,
attitude, and faith in the creation of well-being
The Parish Nurse is also a health counselor. Some examples of where we
counsel are: for personal health problems; recommending medical intervention;
explaining medications. Other responsibilities include: making home,
hospital, and nursing home visits; conducting health screenings; and,
counseling about nutrition and exercise.
The Parish Nurse is a facilitator and teacher of volunteers.
They recruit, train, and supervise volunteers who help the nurse within
the congregation and the community.
The Parish Nurse is a liaison and referral source for community
resources. As there are many intricacies within the health care system,
the Parish Nurse can assist with: health care provider referrals; federal,
state or community agency
guideline interpretation; the arrangement for home health care; nursing
home placement; legal or financial counsel for parishioners.
Parish Nurses are interpreters of the relationship between faith and
health. They understand the key elements of a healing ministry -
prayer, laying on of hands, anointing with oil, Holy
Communion and other Sacraments of the church. Parish Nurses serve as a link
between the message that we are loved by God - with the message that - His
grace frees us, to be loved by self and others.
Your Lummi
Island Parish
Nurses
Interfaith
Coalition’s Friendly Visitors
program matches compassionate
volunteers with older members of the community whose health and well-being
may improve with increased social contact. Trained volunteers make
weekly
home visits to seniors. Before they are matched, all volunteers and
seniors
are interviewed and carefully screened to ensure the most compatible and
helpful matches are made.
Individuals who wish to make a difference in a senior neighbor's life may
attend one of the following upcoming training sessions: Saturday, January
21
from 9 - Noon or Friday, February 10 from 1 - 4 p.m.
Please call 756-5179 to reserve a space at either session, or to refer
a
senior to the program.
Interfaith Coalition's Annual
Meeting will be held at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday,
January 24 at First Christian Church, 495 East Bakerview Road
in Bellingham.
Please come and celebrate the ministries of Interfaith Coalition and see
first-hand how contributions support local people in need. There will
be
stories from clients and providers, music and refreshments.
Interfaith’s newest partnership house for
homeless families will be open for
tours from 7 - 7:30 p.m. Disciples House, a partnership between
Interfaith
Coalition and First Christian Church, will welcome its first homeless family
by February 1st. Over 200 volunteers have contributed close to 2000
hours
painting, furnishing renovating, and transforming the home into a sanctuary
for homeless families in crisis.
Forty-eight congregations in Whatcom
County are members of
Interfaith
Coalition. For twenty-five years, Interfaith congregations have
combined
financial and volunteer resources to help thousands of local people in need
of housing and health care.
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