Trends in Congregational Nursing & Health Ministries

1. Mary Chase-Ziolek, PhD, RN Trends in Congregational Nursing & Health Ministries

2. Health Ministries Health Minister Caring Congregations Lay Health Promoters Health Cabinet Church-based Clinics Parish/Faith Community Nursing

3. What’s in a name? • Parish Nurse • Congregational Nurse • Faith Community Nurse

4. A parish nurse by any other name is a… • Bridge connecting faith and health Faith Health

5. Health Ministry empowers individuals, families, congregations and communities towards health and wholeness And can include Wellness Ministry that seeks to promote health • Healing Ministry that seeks to restore health that may also  include • Health Care Ministry that provides direct care

6. Ministries of Health • “… are the components of church life that promote the health, healing and wholeness of individuals, families, congregations and communities. Ministries of health may have an explicit purpose of promoting health or they may have a purpose other than health promotion, yet health, healing and wholeness is enhanced through participation in that ministry.” Chase-Ziolek, M. (2005). Health, Healing and Wholeness. Cleveland: Pilgrim, 7.

7. Trends in Faith Community Nursng

8. Who is Serving? • Volunteers • What is so engaging about faith community nursing that people are willing to volunteer? • Paid – often part time receiving less than market salary • How can financial resources be leveraged? • Mature nurses – often retired • How can we build on the possibilities for “refirement?”

9. Who is Served?

10. Changing Faces Benefitting from Health Ministries

11. Trends in Services Provided • Health promotion in addition to disease management • Faith, Food & Fitness • Faith-based health education in addition to faith-placed health education • Fit 2 Serve • Walk to Jerusalem • First Place

12. Faith Community Nursing • From Midwestern Roots • To an International Presence

13. Adapting to Respond to Needs • Rural Communities • Disease Challenges • Partnering with government agencies

14. Challenge of Sustainabiliy • Laying a firm foundation • Biblical & theological • Organizational • Financial • Integrating health into church life • Worship & Bible Study • Education & Community Life • Ministry Programs & Outreach

15. Ministry Health Ministries of Health Intentional Health Ministry Intrinsic Health Ministry Outcomes Documented Ongoing evaluation Supported by health partners Health ministers’ preparation theologically grounded Theologically Grounded Health integrated in church life Culturally congruent Pastors’ preparation includes matters of faith & health From: Chase-Ziolek, M. (2005). Health, Healing and Wholeness. Cleveland, Pilgrim, 116. A Vision for the Future

16. Evidence-based Practice and Spirit-led Ministry • Faith community nurse outcomes • Meaningful Ministry

17. Faith Community Nursing: Changing the Lives of Nurses & Congregations

18. Mary Chase-Ziolek, PhD, RN North Park University & Theological Seminary 3225 W. Foster Ave. Chicago, IL 60625 773-244-6201 mchase-ziolek@northpark.edu www.northpark.edu/sem Contact Information

19. Preparing the Next Generation • Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, "Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?" And I said, "Here am I. Send me!" • Isaiah 6:8