Visit to the care home

This month we had a couple of people in the local church who came in to talk to our students about working with elderly people. After the session, we visited a local care home where the students sang and chatted with the residents. It was a wonderful blessing when the following week they contcted us saying that instaed of 2 at communion that week, 8 people had come for communion. They asked us if we would come in each month!

We'll meet again

After practising we finally went to the Firs school and gave our rendition of some golden oldies. It was a privelege to spend the afternoon with our seniors and listen to some of their wonderful stories - we were blessed and hope that we encouraged them in their faith that day.

The Firs

At the moment several of us are practising our harmonies. We will be spending the afternoon with the residents from several care homes being hosted at the Firs School in Chester. We'll be singing a few golden oldies and then chatting with the folks. Anyone who loves to sing is free to join us.

learning to love again

Seeing as I'm the only one doing elderly people's work this year, I've been asked to update the blog myself. I went back in to Florence Grogner a while ago and there was a huge group of elderly people with us for the service. There was one man with us that they'd been trying to get to join us since they started to visit and numbers are definitely growing.

The people there are lovely and its really great to get to know them. We spend time talking to them after the service is over and they're really friendly and willing to open up to us. On my very first week, I was told the life stories of quite a few of the elderly people without me even asking them any questions!

I'm not the world's most naturally patient person and sometimes I find the elderly quite exasperating, especially when they forget to turn their hearing aids on. But God seems to really be teaching me patience with this group. I'm not getting frustrated or annoyed with them when they cant hear me or when they tell me the same story twenty times. I still need more patience, but I'm learning a lot.

Going to see them is great fun and completely different from any other work I do on the light project. It's so worthwhile and I'm learning a lot.

You'll never walk alone

Yesterday, Sjaan one of our first years visited an elderly home in Chester where she spoke and sang of her faith.