from seeing your perspective today i have a wonderful program that is going to be very industry to everybody and i hope that we can make you realize what a wonderful program this is and how we can benefit wonderful speaker he's going to talk on seniors and the aging process and what it's like to reflect on the years that we've had with with a christian perspective there and father w talk at ten o'clock in the morning on the thirtieth that's a thursday and he'll speak for about an hour from ten to eleven and from about eleven to eleven thirty he's going to answer questions and then following that we have a health fair in our in our hall or church hall which is called a brian hall and excuse me but this is going to be just the speaker the question and answer period it's not going to be a miss correct yes it's just the speaker and questions and answers that will take place in the church and we have it in the church because we can hold quite a lot of people in the church and everyone in the community is invited it doesn't matter what faith they are this is open to all it's free there's no charge whatsoever and following that we will have the health fair and o'brian hall and we will provide some light refreshments healthy refreshments and so this is about you know that they health issues that seniors face in these years along with spiritual emphasis for the seniors and their health care will last from unleavened thirty until one thirty in the afternoon to two hours about two hours and we have about forty vendors  one of which is how to get people the help that they need so through our health and wellness ministry we're going to try to hold people up with community resources or perhaps a social worker or people who volunteer their time to go into the home and help other people and that is the hardest part really to get people to realize that there is help our there for them through really come forward because it's the only way you're going to find out of people need help that's said in one of his pastoral letters that at some time in our life we all need help and we should not be ashamed to ask for that help some of us need help at some time and others of us are able to give that help and it's really all about good stewardship and sharing the gifts and the talents that we have with her and that's what we hope to provide through this health ministry and by allowing these vendors to command and show everyone what they can do for them and how they can help them with situations that come up in their daily lives in surprising i know from experience that because i used to do the helping hands when we had this program growing are in it was so hard to get people to realize  strictly confidential no information is ever shared with other people it's it's when you come and to talk to one of the nurses or you call us we keep that confidential just like we do if we were working in the hospital or a nursing home and other people in the church are not privy to that information right and we have quite a network in our own church to help people with a lot of other ministries were prepared to help people who have perhaps lost a job and or who are say underemployed they need some additional income you need to find another job we have a wonderful ministry there called the hope ministry that will help them with that i read something about really something that is really free today it's wonderful in there and we're also working with abby ministry which is a neighborhood group of people who will work within a given neighborhood because you know when you get sick or you have a new baby or there's a crisis perhaps a death in the family your neighbors are the first ones to find out about it that's true and we need that information to come back to the church so we can all pitch in and help everyone whether it's preparing a meal or possibly transportation you know the logos little babysitting for someone hopefully will be will be able to help in a lot of different ways for people it's a wonderful wonderful idea i just hope that everything goes wrong well for you and really takes you're exactly right about that and we have a lot of dedicated people who are so anxious to go and help other people and they're putting in a lot of time and energy and i think that this will be welcomed in the community once we get the word out there we have washington hospital coming in and they're going to do several programs on diabetes they will have information there also women's health issues and they'll have some information about urgent care which is their unit on route one thousand by even park and you know that's a nice place to go if you need some medical services but maybe you don't have to go to the emergency room together and it's not a real emergency in there talking about that we have vision screening that will go on and we have someone coming from the washington county blind association and we also have a company coming in that do auditory screenings we have bone density screenings going on so that we can help people with osteoporosis give them information as to what they might be able to do to help that  osteoporosis and exercises that can be done which he has found out will actually reduce the osteoporosis that you have and it's not vigorous exercise like you know when we you know want to get on that treadmill you know we don't have to lift weights this is a very gentle form of exercise and it only has to be done once a week from what i understand or where that's very to let people know what they can provide in the home whether it's a nursing service or possibly a skilled aide service sometimes speech therapy is needed or occupational therapy and the one thing with occupational therapy is when people are in the home sometimes they don't realize the little things that they can do that saves them energy or will will allow them to maintain the function at home that they want to do with just some small system devices set of bending down on the floor to pick something so it isn't that nice that you can stay home in your own home and and many you know that's right and be be comforted by the things that you have around you that you've had for your whole life and that's very important we also have someone coming in that will have information on insurance retirement changes all the time it does it's very hard to keep track of everything that's happening a lot of medicare changes and other insurance changes your we also have someone who is going to come in from buying ours oh and they have a lot of useful information for people who would like to preplan things in the end rather than having to wait and kind of be in a crisis situation and it's more difficult to make decisions when i know i had hospice for a number of years for my husband and that's one of the things that they did when they mentioned it to me about making preparations or i can't do that i mean you citizens how you know someone will come in and pretend to be somebody else just to get it and gain access to their home we're going to have the fire department there too so we can talk about prevention ok we don't want them there to visit you for fire we want them to help you prevent accidents or fires in the home we have meals on wheels coming in and they do agree wonderful services down say if they do and we have so many shut ins in the community they could benefit from some of these services so hopefully they'll get to see your show so we can get information to them to ok we have the peters township library coming in they have a wonderful program for shut  my name is k c all my life i know wanted to help others but i didn't know how american or survived analogy me to be the change i want to see in the world that people in the parish thought they needed and one of them was an information you know how can they get health information and so we started talking about joining health care and as it turned out bill back up from gateway hospice happen to call dentist girl line our pastoral associate and i was telling him about father scott and so we presented the idea of having the health care and having father scott come and talk and that's really how it got started and from there it just kind of snowballed with you know asking people if they'd like to participate in the house fair and we've got quite a group now well you know he's a very good person to get things rolling ok so exciting as it is he really is  difficult to get a get together and do some planning but by spring time we were pretty much off and running with it and you know through the summer time we started to talk to people in the community that we thought would come in and have useful information for participate in this well they can actually get in touch with us at any time and we can put that in a file and then notify them when we would be having another health care would certainly keep a file on that and of course we would welcome anyone who would who would want to sure they mean they have programs through exactly we really would like to be able to meet the needs of everyone in the parish so we'll certainly be looking for ideas or that will be job well it's a big job but we're very fortunate that we have a lot of dedicated the health care will take place on september thirtieth that's next thursday and it will start at ten o'clock in the morning it will start in the church st benedict the abbot church on abington drive and it will last about an hour and a half at the church with father scott and following that everyone is invited to a brian hall which is our church hall and there will have the health care we'll have some light refreshments and people can take their time going around to visit with different vendors have some testing done if they'd and what was a lot of people will be doing blood pressure screening so that we can help so anyone who you know would be an arrest and having their blood pressure taken they can just come by and even have that done there's no fee at all for that everything's free we're also going to have  flu shots and pneumonia shots anyone interested in that just needs to bring their insurance card and there will be nurses there and they will administer the flu shots and the pneumonia shots you have the flu organization coming in that will have assisted devices their progress of the mobility from washington is coming so they'll have some information there for people to who might need something in the home with the stair climbing system device and you know the chairs to kind of rise up and get on your feet again so they have a lot of information like that to share with people i hate to have this with you know someone coming that are fair where i think there are you know what no i don't think we do don't i don't i could be wrong but i don't believe we have anybody coming forth and there are a lot of companies out there though they do provide that service and it is worthwhile  do something to be prepared and a guess it's good to say that you're getting old was no it doesn't say you're getting all of it all it just says that i need help right now for some particular reason it you may not have fallen thirtieth starts at ten o'clock in the morning father will talk from ten to eleven thirty and the fares from eleven thirty until one thirty and remember we do have some light refreshments so please come and enjoy yourself this takes place at st benedict the abbot church at one twenty abington drive in mcmurray that's off of valley brook road so please come you know it's not hard to find though it isn't and we have a big s system and they provide a lot of services for for the needy but they're coming to our health fair to let everyone know about the parish nurse program that they have where they actually do the teaching of the nurses who want to become parish nurses or this one ye it's a specialty there you can enter into as a nurse it's recognized by the american nurses association and it takes extra training and spiritual care as well as the professional nurse side of it the science of hard i don't know whether you want to get into this or not but even this is besides the fear is there going to be a program or something where people can get in touch with your new station or some other whim the fear well yes i don't know if you want to get into all that or not well you know i'll be happy to mention it our health and wellness ministry will have an office right inside of our church building you come in the front doors of the church our office will be right on the right side of the church first store on the right we will have office hours regular office hours there staffed by a nurse and we are in the process of getting our own telephone number a dedicated telephone line for the health and wellness ministry that nurses will answer so that anyone who wants to call in and ask the question or has a concern you can discuss it with a nurse and a confidential we do have a lock file cabinet there the room is locked at all times other than when it's in use by someone there and we do protect all of our information just like when you go to the hospital horns learn in a nursing home wonderful and i think it's something that should be addressed in their people know that the help is out there yes yes because there's so many times that you need help when you don't know where to turn the nation would be a point never be embarrassed about asking for help you know the lord really wants us to help each other as we help ourselves and that's what the church is about that's what our ministry is about and we have a lot of people there who want to help so please ask for help so we can come in we can help you with your physical  needs if you are in a crisis and under a lot of stress sometimes it just helps to talk to somebody about that and we're willing to listen and visit with you and take the time and we'd also like to meet your spiritual well i i can't think of anything else well thank you very much irma it's been a pleasure unless you want to one more time telling women all right ok ok september thirtieth at ten o'clock in the morning at st benedict the average church in mcmurray at one twenty abington to arrive which is often right behind the dairy bar or easy to find and the telephone numbers in the book it's seventy four nine four one nine four we all need help it's sometimes we do other and we should not be afraid to ask for it let's have some and i guess that's what we're going to and it spans all ages if you're a new mom if you're a teenager you know if you're a middle aged we