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Nursing Home Ministry

Posted on August 18, 2014March 12, 2021 by ptsblog

Nursing home ministry is different. Whether serving with an MDiv/MSW in Mt. Lebanon, Pa., or Orlando, Fla., I found that all ministries are intimate. Pastors are involved in weddings, funerals, divorce, baptisms; they are there for the key moments of the lives of congregants. In nursing home ministry, pastors experience these same things except they…

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Melody and Memory: the role sacred music plays in nursing home ministry

Posted on June 26, 2014March 18, 2021 by ptsblog

When I graduated from Pittsburgh Theological Seminary’s MDiv/MSW program in 2005, theology and sacred music was not something that I had thought much about. I love music. But considering how it would be a part of my ministry was really not something that I had been challenged with during the course of my studies. I…

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