Pastoral Visiting
Pastoral Visits are available at a time and in a place to suit the client.
This service is open to anyone living with HIV who is lonely or isolated and / or with specific spiritual needs. This service offers regular emotional and spiritual support by trained volunteers and occasionally staff.
This can be a long or short term service or emergency only in cases of illness.
The Right Reverend V. Gene Robinson, Bishop of New Hampshire, Episcopal Church USA
'Some twenty years ago, early in the AIDS epidemic, an AIDS organization in the Episcopal Church USA proclaimed: "Our Church has AIDS!" While initially met with shock, this statement came to signify our realization that as long as ANYONE has AIDS, ALL of us have AIDS. All of God's people are either infected or affected. The pandemic continues, and just because the disease has proceeded into communities of color, women and children in our own country, as well as reached into every country around the globe, we are no less affected. Indeed, our Church STILL has HIV/AIDS, and as God's people, we must continue to care for those who suffer, educate the well, and support those who work for a cure.'
photo credit: Geoff Forester
(Forester Photography, Concord, New Hampshire) |
