Celebrating Ministry To and With Older Adults
The needs that can come with growing older are many. How can church leaders address those needs and minister to their older members? The central theme of posts in this category is on how churches can provide age resources – how to identify and/or develop resources to help their members meet the many challenges that go with growing older.
Close your eyes and think of yourself twenty years older. Forty years older. What do you see? Does the thought of growing old scare you? Do you see wheelchairs, canes, nursing homes? How about hearing aides, or severe memory loss? These are things we often assume are inevitable. We assume incorrectly. Old age is not … Read more
Is it possible that ministry to and with older adults has a low priority because we are afraid of our own aging? The physical aspects of aging can be depressing. Aging means we are that much closer to death, and thus we dread growing older. It might come as a surprise that older adults are … Read more