NACC Now The National Association of Catholic Chaplains Monday, August 4, 2008

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1. Executive Director’s Reflection 2. Thanks for Your Help to the Care Services/Staff Development Task Force 3. Keep Watch for the Fall Certification Interview Schedule 4. Check Your Mail for Your Board Election Ballot! 5. We Keep Working on State Liaison Calls 6. Healing Tree: A request for prayers 7. Recent job postings 8. Please go to the NACC website for these local gatherings

1. Executive Director’s Reflection Just one year ago, August 1, 2007, I began this position of Executive Director. I am very grateful to God and you for this ministry of leadership and ad-ministry-ration. The NACC mission to support your participation in the healing ministry of Jesus in the name of the Church drives our staff’s service to you. Again, thank you also for the many expressions of prayer and support for me and my family since the death of my Mother.

An important spiritual guide in my life has been Charles de Foucauld, who was drawn back to God through the reverence of the Muslims in North Africa among whom he lived. His spiritual tenets offer some food for thought for the healing ministry. They include ...continue reading online

2. Thanks for Your Help to the Care Services/Staff Development Task Force In the last NACC Now the Pastoral Care Summit Care Services/Staff Development Task Force requested the names of Pastoral/Spiritual Care leaders in non-Catholic institutions to review a draft of Pastoral Care Standards for Chaplains that can be used by healthcare entities. We had a great response. Thank you! Also, a question was raised, “Are we changing the certification standards again?” No, these are standards of practice, i.e., what professional practices are expected of a certified chaplain in a healthcare setting, versus the certification standards that articulate what is expected of a person to become certified. Hope this explanation helps.

3. Keep Watch for the Fall Certification Interview Schedule The Interview Team Educators and NACC staff are busy finalizing the interview schedule for the October 4-5, 2008 certification interviews. This information should be sent to you within the coming days. Please watch for it. Thanks to all who have been working on this important project.

4. Check Your Mail for Your Board Election Ballot! This week the NACC office will be mailing to you the board election ballot. Please be part of building our NACC board. Please vote. We have an excellent slate of candidates for one at-large board position. Again, we appreciate the willingness of the following members to be considered for this position: James Castello, Blair Holtey, Rev. Baaju Izuchi, CSSp, Rev. Dean Marek, and Marie Polhamus. For more information on them go to: http://www.nacc.org/board/board_election.asp.

5. We Keep Working on State Liaison Calls We have been working on setting conference calls with state liaisons. Cindy Bridges is trying to set conference calls in August for the following four groupings of NACC state liaisons: Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio, and Indiana; West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware; New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, Wyoming, and Utah; and Texas and Oklahoma. The goal is to help get organized communication strategies and gatherings for the coming months. Two of these groupings already have fall meetings scheduled, as you will see below in the listings.

6. Healing Tree: A request for prayers Please continue to keep in prayer Sr. Hilda Mallet, MHS (Undergoing cancer radiation treatments which followed Chemo), Sr. Joyce Troyer, CSC. (Recovering from surgery), Sr. Albertine Kramer, CSC (Recovering from extensive surgery, is in rehabilitation, and is in transition after serving for 18 years at St. Joseph Medical Center in South Bend, IN), Sr. Paula Jacobs, SSM (terminal cancer), Dennis Eldridge (Kathy’s husband, for cancer treatment), Sr. Mary Skopal, SSJ (recovering from back surgery), and Sr. Mary Anna Euring, OP (bout with Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma).

7. Recent job postings The following positions have been posted in the last two weeks. Please go to www.nacc.org/positions/available.asp for more information about them.

DIRECTOR OF PASTORAL CARE Richmond, VA – Bon Secours Richmond Health System CHAPLAINS Kalamazoo, MI – Borgess Medical Center ROMAN CATHOLIC PRIEST Paterson, NJ – St. Joseph's Healthcare System

8. Please go to the NACC website for these local gatherings Our local gathering list is growing. Therefore, we ask you to visit www.nacc.org/resources/local.asp for more information on:

Portland, OR, September 19-20, 2008 Alexandria, MN, September 25-26, 2008 Green Lake, WI, October 26-28, 2008 Colorado Springs, CO, October 31, 2008 St. Louis, MO, November 4, 2008 Baltimore, MD, November 12, 2008

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