Members of this committee serve with Carol as health resource persons. More recently, Bon Air dedicated two Sundays in January 1999 to health and wholeness. The January mini-courses included such topics as sleep and rest, merry menopause, men's health issues, and normal aging. I see my job as a parish nurse continuing long after I retire from my 'job'. I'm having too much fun to think of stopping.
People become related spiritually.
We pray for each other every day, and we continue to feel nourished through follow-up programs that show love and support. Pat, who works at Chippenham Hospital in medical intensive care and radiology and at St. Michael's Episcopal Church as a parish nurse, has seen an increase in both the parish ministry program at St. Michael's and in her own spiritual journey. She oversees some 40 church members working in health care, home visitation, and crisis intervention and continues to be open to special opportunities that call for her own particular expertise. Several times a year Hartsock helps St. Michael's provide a support group for people suffering from grief and loss. The groups are part of an overall bereavement program, also under the health care ministry of the church.