Senior adult ministry
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Article Dinner Delivery
A few years ago our men’s group wanted to do something special on Thanksgiving. They figured that they could cook up a meal and take it out to people they knew whose…
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Article Sharing and Preserving Stories
During the summer and early fall of 2011, I had the opportunity to sit with Lucimarian Roberts, the 88 year-old mother of Good Morning America anchor, Robin Roberts, and listen to …
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Article Reaching Older Adults: Are Seminaries Equipping Pastors to Minister to Seniors?
About a year ago, I heard from a young pastor of a United Methodist church who said he had a confession he wanted to share with me. He told me that he had come face-to-face with a …
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Article Fears of Aging
A few weeks ago I received a Christmas letter from a long-married couple in their nineties. I had to smile when I came to a particular sentence. “This year we managed not to …
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Article Renewed Purpose
We have become a throw-away society. A quick glance through your post-Christmas trash receptacle will likely affirm just how much we have come to love convenience. From gift bags…
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Article Been There. Done That. I'm Through.
An 86 year-old woman leaned forward in her seat as she described her frustration with longtime friends who seem satisfied with sitting around their apartments in their house…
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