$ Ministry with the Forgotten (NCC Lay Servant Ministries)
October 14 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
The Corridor district Lay Servant Ministries team presents the Ministry with the Forgotten with Joey Shelton.
This 10-hour class is divided between five Monday evenings. This course will be offered via Zoom on Mondays from 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm, starting on October 14, 2024 and ending on November 11, 2024. Participants must attend at least four of the five sessions to receive credit for the course.
This course is designed to help laity and clergy deepen their understanding of persons living with dementia and help all maintain their identity and worth as beloved children of God. Confronting the deep personal and theological questions created by loving people with dementia, Carder calls the church to a deeper discipleship defined by the quality of our caring and receiving relationships.
Participants will discover what it means to carry each other’s memories, joys, and diminishments together in community. Through loving practices that nurture and incorporate persons with Alzheimer’s and dementia into the church’s life and ministry, we experience a spiritual wholeness rooted in God’s grace beyond our own strengths and capacities.
Participants will:
- Be better equipped to minister with people affected by dementia, receiving their gifts and responding to their unique needs;
- Discover practical ways the contributions of people with dementia can be identified, nurtured, and incorporated into the church’s life and ministry;
- Deepen their understanding of how those with dementia maintain their identity and worth as beloved children of God.
$15
