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Senior Adult Ministries seeks to embrace and to respond to God's view of aging, offering opportunities for friendship, learning, and joy for both seniors and those who are caregivers.
The Senior Adults at Calvary Memorial Church are an integral part of the church family, serving as elders, Sunday School teachers, choir members, greeters, and in many other capacities. They are excellent role models for the younger members of the church body. In addition, they have several regular activities of their own.
Activities
SENIOR CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP meets at 12:00 on the third Thursday of the
month. The event includes a
delicious meal, followed
by a special program of music and/or a guest speaker.
Visitation
Calvary Memorial Church has a heart for our seniors in nursing homes
and those that are homebound.
We have a visitation system in place to ensure that our seniors are
getting sufficient contacts.
Visitors leave a greeting card to help relatives recognize that a visit
has been made. The card
contains words of Scriptural encouragement and comfort.
Caring
Our Caring Ministry keeps in touch with our homebound seniors and those
in residential care through
visitation and regular church mailings. Many of those who are confined
make it their special ministry
to pray for the many different facets of church life.
A Senior Visitation Center is being provided that will support those doing visitation and to encourage others to make calls. This is located at the Information center and is a place where materials such as greeting cards, visitation cards, and tracts can be obtained. Other materials such as Our Daily Bread devotional booklets, gifts, and tapes of our church services can be requested at the church office and from the Seniors' Pastor.
Special Classes
From time to time, special classes will be held to deal with subjects
of interest to those involved in the
Senior Adult Ministry. These classes will cover how to make calls in
nursing homes and to those who
are homebound; how to understand the specific needs and problems of
seniors; and how to communicate
with the seniors in nursing homes.
The Visitation Team meets the first Wednesday of every month at 6 PM,
for prayer and training.
Everyone is invited to participate in these meetings.
For more information, please contact Richard Ferrell, Seniors' Pastor, at 637-7226.