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Volunteers Needed—Blessing of the Hands for Healthcare and First Responders

May 28, 2021 /

Volunteers Needed—Blessing of the Hands for Healthcare and First Responders

Monday June 7th 6:30am-7:30pm 

Faith Church will be providing a (contactless and drive through) Blessing of the Hands for first responders (police, fire, EMS, etc.) and healthcare staff Monday, June 7th from 6:30 AM to 7:30 PM so all shifts can attend.  We want to thank them for their work and offer support for the on-going challenges they face as they begin to recover from the trauma of their work during COVID. 

Volunteers are needed to:  1) pass out and post fliers, 2) spruce up the exterior of the church, 3) be a blesser, 4) and to serve as Greeters and traffic control throughout that day. 

We are asking folks to work 2-hour shifts, if possible.  To secure the slot and task that works best for you, please contact Pastor Carla [email protected] or Pastor Janet [email protected] to sign up!!  

Fliers are available in stacks of 10 at the church on the desk in the office.  Please stop by and place these in your local coffee shop, library, neighborhood store, etc.  You can also share a PDF of the flier by downloading it from the church website or sharing the Facebook Event from the Faith Church Facebook page with your friends.

Thanks for your help in caring for those who seek to care for others, even during the riskiest of times!

Blessing of the Hands on June 7th

May 18, 2021 /

Community-Wide Blessing of the Hands
For All Healthcare and First Responder Staff
June 7th 6:30am to 7:30pm (rain or shine)

Faith Church, UCC970 Loop 337, New Braunfels
ENTER from Loop 337 and EXIT onto Common Street

To acknowledge the care provided and added stressors faced this past year and offer support to the work still ahead, Faith Church is offering a contact-less, interfaith, Blessing of the Hands for all healthcare workers and first responders (fire, police, EMS, etc.). All are welcome!

Please enter from Loop 337, drive forward to the next available station, put on your mask (required for the safety of everyone), roll down your window, and place your hands outside your vehicle with palms up and together.

A cotton ball with lavender water will be dropped into your hands for you to make whatever symbol appropriate for your beliefs or simply to rub on your hands as an anointing.

A volunteer will say a blessing over your hands as you do this, then hand you a copy of the blessing to keep. Then please exit on the Common Street side of the church property.

All are welcome to this event designed to be a source of support and care to you, and all who have worked so hard to serve, protect, and care for our community during such challenging times.

Call 830-625-6761 or email [email protected] for more information.

Download a flyer here and share share share!!!Download

Blessing of the Hands

May 3, 2021 /

Faith Church is planning a community-wide socially-distanced Blessing of the Hands for all healthcare staff and first responders *most likely* to be held 6a-8p Monday June 7th.

It is designed to acknowledge the work they have done, are doing, and have ahead of them to care for others the personal and professional trauma they’ve faced while doing so the journey to come, as they can finally begin to slow down and grieve what they’ve been living through for more than a year.

Research shows healthcare workers after the first SARS pandemic in 2003 faced astronomical burnout and PTSD rates 18-36 months AFTER the pandemic was over. 

The road ahead may not be easy for many of them as we return to our lives and they remember the ones they tried to help but who will not be returning to theirs and as we remember the colleagues we’ve buried and wonder, and even feel guilt, about why we survived when they did not.

We want to do all we can to respond to them as they have responded to us

help them on their own path toward healing do all we can to decrease their risks for burnout and PTSD by offering ample support for them, in whatever ways we can.

Please mark your calendars and look for ways to participate in this event!  We will have rotating shifts of greeters and blessers from 6a to 8p to give as much chance for all shifts of workers to attend as possible.

There will be many opportunities to volunteer and there are plenty of logistics to confirm, as we don’t want a good idea to turn into a disaster!  We’re working on it all—getting clear about routes into and out of the church, lining up volunteers to serve as blessers and direct traffic, getting things out into the press, printing up cards with the spiritual but not dogmatic blessing so all will feel comfortable attending, preparing the bowls of cotton balls dipped in lavender that will be dropped into their palms to bless their hands with as volunteers say a blessing over them, etc.  

Any event planners or organizers out there who can help, please holler as we need your gifts!!  Til then, please spread the word that this event is coming and keep us in prayer as we plan the event.

And thank a healthcare worker or first responder, today, letting them know you’re with them.

Peace,
Pastor Carla

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