HSHS Good Shepherd Hospital issued the following announcement on June 14.
HSHS Good Shepherd Hospital (GSS) not only cares about the ill and helps the community attain wellness, but it also ministers to the spiritual being of a person for a holistitic healing approach.
For this reason, GSS will begin holding a service called “For the Needs of Our People” on the third Thursday of each month from 1-1:30 p.m. in the GSS chapel, and the public is invited to join. This ceremony will be led by colleagues of the hospital. The first of this kind of service will be held on Thursday, June 21.
GSS would like to invite the community to drop off their prayer request in the prayer jar that is available just outside of the chapel, in the med-surg department and at the main registration area. There are forms available and prayer requests may be anonymous. One may select if they want the prayer request to be read aloud to the congregation or to be read silently.
The ceremony will include a song, the prayer requests and a special prayer. The chapel bell will be rung after each request is read aloud, accompanied by “Lord, please hear our prayer.”
After the ceremony, the prayers will be sent to the Hospital Sisters of St. Francis, who will also lift these requests in prayer.
“We want to give our community another source of hope as we open this special service,” Co-Mission Integration team member Teri Whalen said. “We know that in the Bible, it states in Matthew 18-10, ‘For where two or more are gathered in my name, there I am.’ So, we want to come together and let the community know we care about all sides of their health and well-being. We hope that our colleagues, patients and patients’ families take this opportunity in prayer to handle those things we are not meant to carry alone.”
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