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The Parish Nurse Program at West Side is based on the
interrelationship between spiritual, physical and mental health.
This ministry is an outreach to individuals and families in the
church and community, reflecting Christ's compassion for healing
and His desire that His followers live an abundant life.
The Parish Nurse Program promotes healing and optimal health of
the whole person. The Parish Nurse program also serves as a
comfort and presence to those who are dying. The Parish Nurses
teach about health of the whole person: body, mind and spirit and
the relationship of spiritual health and the health of the whole
person.
Parish Nurses:
- help people understand how to volunteer to help others in need.
- counsel people about health needs.
- act as liaison to community services and resources.
- seek to promote health by facilitating an understanding of how
lifestyles, attitudes and faith affect well-being.
- help people realize comfort and healing through prayer.
Health Information Resource Board
 A health information
resource board is now located in the church foyer. Helpful pamphlets
on various health issues are available and information is updated
monthly. Home Visit Ministry
The Home Visit Ministry focuses on visiting those people who are ill,
lonely or homebound. Those in the congregation who feel they can serve the
Lord by visiting elderly and homebound people can call the church office
to become members of this ministry.
West Side Wheels
Our newest van is a minivan, designed especially for people who have
difficult climbing up into a regular van and even a car. You just walk up
a ramp! It is also designed to have wheelchairs just roll up the little
ramp and park right inside the van so the rider doesn't have to be
transferred in and out of the wheelchair but just rides in it while being
transported to church or medical appointments.
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Parish News
- Weekly activities...
- Next Health and Wholeness Service
It is a service of worship and prayer, seeking the Lord's healing
where there is physical, mental or spiritual brokenness. We seek
to lift one another up to the Lord's healing touch. We will pray
for concerns for individuals, families, our community and our
nation. There will be opportunity for personal sharing in small
groups, and when appropriate, for anointing and the laying on of
hands as we seek the measure of health and wholeness that only our
Creator and Redeemer can accomplish in us. All of those who have
attended these services in November and January are extremely
blessed. All are welcome. It is held in the chapel. These services
are held whenever there is a fifth Tuesday in the month.
- Blood Pressure Clinic - Be sure to have your blood
pressure checked, especially if it is at all elevated (above
120/80). On odd numbered Sundays the clinic is are after second
service in the Neale prayer room at the rear of the sanctuary. On
even numbered Sundays the clinics are during the coffee hour in
Howell Auditorium.
- West Side Wheels, our minivan designed to easily carry
wheel chairs, handicapped, or frail people now has drivers who are
committed to this ministry. It is our intention that
all those who desire to attend should be able to "dwell in the
house of the Lord" on Sunday mornings or for special events.
Weekly Activities
Listed below are regular weekly activities.
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Weekly Activities |
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Blood Pressure Clinics: |
-- Available
odd-numbered Sundays following second service.
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Available even-numbered
Sundays during coffee hour. |
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Weight Loss Support Group:
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The Weight Loss
Support Group is not meeting at this time. |
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Health Tip
The number of women who develop ovarian
cancer is small compared to breast cancer, one in 55, compared to
one in nine for breast cancer. For years it has been thought that
ovarian cancer didn't have any symptoms until the cancer had become
too large to allow for a cure. A study in Seattle has shown that
there are indeed symptoms of which every woman, particularly those
over, 60 years of age, should be aware. The most common are
bloating, increase in abdominal size and urinary problems. Other
symptoms are pain in the pelvis, abdomen or back, fatigue,
constipation and indigestion. If you experience these symptoms,
especially the first three, tell your doctor, and request a blood
test called a CA125. |
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