Educational Event focuses on Ministry to the Dying

Educational Event Focuses on Ministry to Dying

Contact: Robby Channell, 601-968-5135 rchannell@mbhs.org

Jackson, Miss. – October 4, 2005 - Registrations are now being accepted for the November 4 Ministry to the Dying Seminar. The Pastoral Care Departments of Hospice Ministries Inc. of Jackson and Mississippi Baptist Health Systems are planning the educational event for pastors and laity focusing on the ministry to the dying patient and their families. The seminar will be conducted in the Hospice Ministries chapel located at 450 Towne Center Blvd. Ridgeland, Ms., from 8:30 a.m. until 3 p.m.

"Five Wishes is known as a living will with a heart and it helps individuals deal with the emotional, physical, spiritual, and psychological end of life issues," commented Chaplain Richard Brogan, Faith in Action Project Coordinator. "This seminar will help ministers and laity to find additional tools that will help them deal with death and dying issues of friends and members of their congregations. Participants will learn how to better present to those who are dying and how to give more comfort to the patients and their families. Anybody who works with the terminally ill would benefit from this seminar."

Areas of concern for this one day seminar will pertain to:

the stages of death,
physical aspects of dying,
emotional aspects of dying,
understanding bereavement,
communication, and
what one can do to help.

Along with this training, information will be shared concerning the Five Wishes Program. The Five Wishes Program is unique among all other living will and health agent forms because it addresses your personal, emotional and spiritual needs as well as your medical wishes. It lets you choose the person you want to make health care decisions for you if you are not able to make them for yourself. Five Wishes lets you say exactly how you wish to be treated if you get seriously ill. It was written with the help of the American Bar Association's Commission on the Legal Problems of the Elderly, and the nation's leading experts in end-of-life care.

Participants will receive a Ministry to the Dying Training Manual and a Five Wishes Booklet. The registration fee for this seminar will be $25.00. Those interested may call the Pastoral Care office at Baptist Medical Center 601-968-5146.

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