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Life and Work - July 2008
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Body and Soul
Life and Work joins the celebration
of 60 years of the National Health Service with
a focus on the role of hospital chaplains.
| The Rev Gillian
Munro who heads up Tayside's Department of
Spiritual Care says: "When
the NHS was set up it was recognised that people
needed spiritual care as well as physical care,
they were whole people, not only an inflamed appendix
or faulty heart valve." |
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In NHS Lothians there are 11 full-time -chaplains supported
by a further 14 part-timers. The pastoral care is available
to everyone and anyone irrespective of belief systems
and the chaplains can be called on to visit people in
any part of the health board division.
The celebrations of the 60th anniversary of the NHS
in Scotland will culminate in a service in St Giles'
Cathedral when Health and Wellbeing secretary Nicola
Sturgeon will address the congregation of patients,
carers and front-line staff.
A Ministry in Community
The Rev Kathy Galloway
leader of the Iona Community (founded over half a century
ago by the charismatic George MacLeod,) is the focus of
this month's profile.
The Community which operates on the Island of Iona,
and also from a centre in Glasgow, has around 280 full
members and around 2000 associate members spread across
the world and from every major western Christian denomination.
Members commit to daily prayer and Bible reading, accountability
to each other for how they use their money and time,
to prayer and action for peace and justice.
Galloway sums up the essence of a Christian community:
"A lot of it is about finding ways to live together
peacefully and warmly although we are different, and
that for me is the heart of the Gospel. It is not that
we will all ever think the same or agree with one another
or believe the same things, but at the root of it we
all commit ourselves living with one another and remaining
in fellowship, though we are different and will remain
different."
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Note to News Desks
For further information, please contact Muriel
Armstrong, Acting Editor of Life and Work on 0131-225
5722 ext 229, or on her mobile 07759 371 602.
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