|  | | | Offering communion, song and companionship to nursing home residents.
There is an old hymn that goes some- thing like this: “If I can help somebody as I pass along, if I can reach somebody with a word or a song. Then my living shall not be in vain.” I may not remember it exactly how “Gram-maw” used to sing it, but I hope you get the sentiment I’m trying to convey.
The Care Home Ministry is an extraordinary experience. When you leave the nursing home, you will feel that your living is not in vain. We go to minister and bless, but the rewards far outweigh our actions.
After our service ends, we greet the residents. During out last visit to the Princeton Place Rehab and Nursing Center, there was a man in a wheelchair who could not speak plainly; he just sort of mumbled. As I greeted this gentleman, he tried to talk to me. I smiled real big and said, “I can’t understand you, but God knows what you are saying. Thank you for coming to the service, and may God bless you.” He managed a slight smile that just melted my heart. So I gave him a great big ’ol True Vine hug.
The next man I greeted was one of the regulars. After I hugged him and asked how he was, he said to me, “You are always smiling. You always have a big smile,” “...when you’re smiling, the whole world smiles with you...” to which I replied “That’s ‘cause I’m so happy to be here.” So he proceeded to sing to me, “When you’re smiling, when you’re smil- ing, the whole world smiles withyou.” That just made my day. Those are just a couple of examples of what
we experience every time we go.
If you have a heart to be a blessing in this way, join us every fourth Saturday from 10 to 11 a.m. at the Princeton Place Rehab and Nursing Center at 7602 Louis Pasteur Drive. For more details, contact our ministry leader, Deacon Thomas Hawkins, at (210) 444-9398. We would love to have you join us, and as we always say, “If you come to be a blessing, you will get blessed.”
Then “your living WILL NOT be in vain”
hawkeye1@satx.rr.com
444-9398
 | | |
|
|
