Good morning,
This week’s devotions will highlight my call to be the WASI (Wasilla Area Seniors, Inc) Chaplain, and the teaching, prayer, counseling, and hospital visitation ministries.
The hospital visitation ministry can be one of the most rewarding of all our ministries. People are at their most vulnerable and yet at their most joyful. Some visits can be more uplifting to me, than to the one being visited.
Some visits are a bit more challenging. Yet they are glad to see a familiar face. Some like to talk and some like to hear Scripture read to them. Others are not so receptive. In each case God leads me in what is said and how to conduct the visit.
So why do we go?
1 Peter 3:8 says, “Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous.”
1 Corinthians 12:26 says, “And if one member suffers, all the members suffer with it; if one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.”
2 Corinthians 1:3,4 says, “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction so that we will be able to comfort those who are in any affliction with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.”
In Matthew 25:35-40 Jesus said, “For I was hungry, and you gave Me something to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave Me something to drink; I was a stranger, and you invited Me in; naked, and you clothed Me; I was sick, and you visited Me …”
We are here to serve, comfort, and encourage those who are sick.
Unfortunately, due to the COVID-19 outbreak, the hospital visitation ministry is on hold. We do not have opportunity to visit anyone.
Tom Stearns, WASI Chaplain, 907 715-4001 chaplain@alaskaseniors.com
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