Thank you to all who served on the Follow the Vision campaign and to all who have made commitments to this important campaign.  The success of this campaign is vital to our future ministries.  God bless you all!

When God plants a seed in someone’s heart for a particular area of service, they often discover as they share that call that others are hearing a similar voice.  That’s what’s happening now as God is calling some people to an organized visitation ministry.  At Aldersgate many people are involved in visiting people who are in the hospital or homebound on their own.  That’s wonderful!  Lots of people have been blessed by their ministries and I’m sure this will continue.  What we are planning is a more formal system where people will be trained and commissioned as visitors and will visit on behalf of the church.  It will bless those who are called to visit and those who receive their visits. Pastor Jerry and I will continue to do some visits, but it will provide more pastoral care for the sick and homebound than we can give (especially when Pastor Jerry is away for two months in the winter and one in the summer.)

If you think God might be calling you to this rewarding ministry, please let me or Pastor Jerry know.  We have scheduled a training session for 2 PM, Tuesday, July 20, 2010.  You are invited to attend this session where you will be trained as a visitor.  If you aren’t sure this ministry is for you, come to the training and let that help you decide.  You will be able to decide if you want to visit in the hospital and/or the homebound and how many visits you are willing/able to make in a month.  If you are interested in exploring or being a part of this ministry but can’t make the training session, let me know.  We will be scheduling an evening training session in August and other trainings will be scheduled as needed.

In Christ’s love,

Anne