The outreach was reinstated from earlier years during 1996-97 by the Rev d Zeke Rogers , Class of 97 and the Diocese of Fort Worth, and was continued this year by senior Judith Gray as a pastoral ministry project. Now, the weekly service at Rogers draws from three to a dozen patients each week who seem to welcome the Sunday worship. Gray coordinated her project with Asst. She and other lay leaders from the Nashotah House community invite the patients to offer their concerns and intercessions for themselves or loved ones as part of the service. Usually the lessons from the Daily Office or Proper for the Sunday are read and a reflection on the readings offered by the lay leader.
Patients join in reading aloud appropriate psalms and canticles.
A member of the junior class, Fr. Edward Thompson comes to Nashotah House as a priest ordained in the Diocese of Liberia in Western Africa. Ordered a deacon in April 1989 and then priest in June 1990, Fr. In his service to the Church in Liberia, Fr. Then, he served as curate at Trinity Cathedral from 1992 to 1995.