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NACC Now The National Association of Catholic Chaplains Monday, January 17, 2011 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Birthday Observance

Read this issue online: www.nacc.org/resources/e-news/nn_issue_88.asp

1. Executive Director’s Reflection 2. PLEASE NOTE! NACC office will be closed January 27-28, 2011 due to move. 3. Next NACC Now will be sent in three weeks, February 7, 2011! 4. NACC office files going “in the cloud” 5. Last call for NACC members to apply to be NACC Board candidates! 6. NACC Governance Committee seeks members with legal background 7. Remember to read the January-February 2011 Online Vision! 8. This Friday is last day to order 2011 World Day of the Sick Prayer Cards! 9. Have you moved recently and not told us? 10. Have you received a new position or promotion and not told us? 11. Receiving NACC Now, but you are not an NACC member?

NACC 2011 NATIONAL CONFERENCE

12. May in Milwaukee! Send in your registration for the 2011 National Conference! 13. Remember the deadline for submitting posters for presentation! 14. Would you join the Volunteer Choir for the 2011 National Conference? 15. Seeking Items for the Silent Auction – NACC 2011 Conference

EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL SUPPORTS

16. February NACC Audio Conferences on Bernard Lonergan and Pastoral Care! 17. 2011 NACC audio conferences! 18. Sign up for Spiritual Care Champion Series Webinars! 19. Are you aware of special conference calls that are held? 20. Are you planning to give any presentations on chaplaincy? 21. Order your video promoting the chaplaincy profession 22. Local/regional event dates 23. National Conferences of other Spiritual Care Collaborative partners 24. Healing Tree: a request for prayers 25. Recent job postings 26. Positions wanted

1. Executive Director’s reflection Blessings to all of you on this day that commemorates Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.! As we honor Dr. King this day, it’s a good day for us to recall some of the profound statements he made that still guide our lives today. For instance, two of my favorites are: “Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.” Or “A right delayed is a right denied.” (read more…)

2. PLEASE NOTE! NACC office will be closed January 27-28, 2011 due to move. Please note that the NACC office will be closed January 27-28, 2011 due to moving from current office space to a new one. Also the NACC email and website will be down at least January 27, 2011. Any emails sent that day will be lost. We will be up as quickly as we can. Thank you in advance for your understanding.

3. Next NACC Now will be sent in three weeks, February 7, 2011! Due to our move to a new location the end of January, we will be sending the next NACC Now in three weeks rather than two weeks. Look for it on Monday, February 7, 2011. Thank you in advance for your understanding.

4. NACC office files going “in the cloud” A week before Christmas all the NACC membership and certification materials of each member were sent to Datastore (www.datastoreweb.com) to be scanned and converted into electronic, web-based records for easy access and management. Going forward, all member files will be scanned and stored electronically. Be assured, all records are secure and private, and we will have several back-ups! This will help our NACC staff better serve our members by ensuring even safer storage of and easy accessibility to their documents.

5. Last call for NACC members to apply to be NACC Board candidates! The nomination process for members to submit their interest in being a candidate for the NACC board ends January 31, 2011. We will need one elected Board member for 2012. Please review the Board needs and criteria, and consider applying by completing the application form or encouraging another who meets the criteria to apply. If you have questions, please contact the Nomination Panel chair, Jim Letourneau at letournj@trinity- health.org.

6. NACC Governance Committee seeks members with legal background The NACC Governance Committee is seeking applications of any members who might have come from a legal background. If you fit that professional background, please consider offering your services. For more background on the Governance Committee and an application for the Governance Committee, please go to www.nacc.org/aboutnacc/governancecommittee.asp.

7. Remember to read the January-February 2011 Online Vision! The January-February 2011 online version of Vision is available. Please take time to view its content and share it with others. The main content is “members only” and is accessed through your membership number. We welcome your comments/suggestions/feedback. Please contact either Laurie Hansen Cardona ([email protected]) or Phil Paradowski ([email protected]).

8. This Friday is last day to order 2011 World Day of the Sick Prayer Cards! The final order day for the new 2011 World Day of the Sick Prayer Cards is this Friday, January 21, 2011! Due to our move we cannot ensure shipping/arrival of cards on time for February 11, 2011. Order today! For order form go to www.nacc.org/resources/wds.

9. Have you moved recently and not told us? When you have moved personal residences or places of employment, or have a new e- mail address or telephone number, please don’t forget to contact Mary Pawicz ([email protected]), our membership support staff person at the NACC office, to let her know! We don’t want you to miss our communications to you!

10. Have you received a new position or promotion and not told us? We like to recognize our members who have recently received a new position or promotion. Please let Cindy Bridges ([email protected]) know so we can publish it in NACC Now!

11. Receiving NACC Now, but you are not an NACC member? If you are one of the 800+ who are not members of NACC but are receiving NACC Now, have you considered becoming an NACC Member? Join the more than 2500 members who advance the ministry of spiritual care, and support one another’s ministry! Receive additional members’ benefits! Visit the NACC website for more membership information. Join today! www.nacc.org/membership/categories.asp

NACC NATIONAL CONFERENCE 2011

12. May in Milwaukee! Send in your registration for the 2011 National Conference! May in Milwaukee! Join us for the 2011 National Conference in Milwaukee, WI, May 21-24, 2011! You will be receiving the Conference brochure in the coming days. Watch for it! It’s going to be a great conference.

13. Remember the deadline for submitting posters for presentation! Monday evening, May 23, 2011, we have set aside time and space for several relaxed learning opportunities. Among those is the opportunity for you to present a poster about your work. Your poster will be a visual presentation of your spiritual care department or CPE program, a special project you’ve developed or a description of works in progress (including research). Beyond pre-conference workshops and 75-minute conference workshops, poster displays offer your colleagues additional ways to learn about creative and innovative programs and research in spiritual care. Please note that applications for Posters are due by February 1, 2011. All applications must be submitted electronically. To learn more about poster presentations and to download an application form, please click here. 14. Would you join the Volunteer Choir for the 2011 National Conference? Come one, come all and sing in the 2011 National Chaplain Conference Volunteer Choir in Milwaukee. We will have Randy Hilgers directing the choir and there are not too many rehearsals so please come and make a joyful noise to the Lord and for all your chaplain family, friends, colleagues and peers. For more information: contact Michael Doyle, Liturgy Chair for the conference, (847) 571-6572 or [email protected].

15. Seeking Items for the Silent Auction – NACC 2011 Conference We invite members to bring to the 2011 Conference handmade or other types of items, including items from your institution, for our silent auction to be held at the conference. Share your talents and gifts to benefit other members! Proceeds will go towards conference scholarships. If you are interested in contributing an item, please contact Susanne at [email protected].

CHAPLAINCY NEWS, EDUCATION, PROFESSIONAL SUPPORTS

16. February NACC Audio Conferences on Bernard Lonergan and Pastoral Care! Bernard Lonergan? Who? What was his contribution, and why can it be important and helpful to us who minister in pastoral care? Our NACC 2011 Conference Planning Task Force chose to include Bernard Longeran’s insights in the theme of this coming year’s conference. Dr. Carla Streeter, OP, a Lonergan scholar at Aquinas Institute in St. Louis, noted for her passion for Lonergan and her ability to make Lonergan’s contributions understandable and applicable to those not familiar with him, will be providing these audio conferences. Her presentations will address in session one “Who is Bernard Lonergan? What is he up to? Why is this significant?” and in session two “Lonergan and Pastoral Care: Caring for Conscious, Recognizing Conversion, and Being Authentic.”

February 3 & 10 are the dates. Please sign up to day! Click here to learn more and register.

17. 2011 NACC audio conferences! We are excited to share with you our 2011 NACC Audio Conferences. They will again be offered on Thursdays at noon (Central Time). More details will follow. Here are the presenters and topics for all but December 2011.

 February 3 & 10, 2011: Sr. Carla Mae Streeter, OP, Th.D. on Bernard Lonergan  June 16 & 23, 2011: Rabbi David Zucker, Ph.D., BCC on the Psalms  July 7 & 14, 2011: Thomas A. Nairn, OFM, Ph.D. on the Ethical and Religious Directives, Part Four, Beginning of Life Issues  August 2011: Certification and Renewal of Certification  September 8 & 15, 2011: Bruce T. Morrill, SJ, Ph.D. on Dying  October 13 & 20, 2011: William Burton, OFM. S.T.D. on Taboos of Touch in the Healing Ministry of Jesus  November 3 & 10, 2011: Zeni Fox, Ph.D. on Chaplaincy as a Ministry of the Church

For questions about our audio conferences, please contact Jeanine Annunziato ([email protected]).

18. Sign up for Spiritual Care Champion Series Webinars! Please remember that you can sign up for individual sessions of the Spiritual Care Champion Series. For more details on how to register for these sessions, click here. Future programs include the following:

February 16th, 2011, Noon – 1:00 pm (Eastern Standard Time), “End of Life and Bereavement,” Presented by Catherine Seeley

March 16th, 2011, Noon – 1:00 pm (Eastern Standard Time), “Role of Spiritual Care in Palliative Care,” Presented by Elizabeth Keene, VP, Mission Effectiveness, St. Mary’s Health System

19. Are you aware of special conference calls that are held? For the past two years, the NACC has been offering sixty minute conference calls for those serving in Palliative/Hospice Care and in Long Term Care, as well as for the 40ish and Under Group and for Deacons. If you have not been participating on these calls and would like to, please contact Cindy Bridges ([email protected]) to let her know which one. We are planning to set those calls for 2011 by the end of January.

20. Are you planning to give any presentations on chaplaincy? We continue to encourage members to promote the chaplaincy profession. Please remember that the NACC office staff wants to make sure you have resources to use and share. If you are planning to do a presentation, please contact Cindy Bridges ([email protected]) so that she can send you brochures. Also, we remind you that you can access on our NACC website the Chaplaincy Ministry video (or order one – see below) as well as two PowerPoint slideshows to use as a basis for the presentation, at www.nacc.org/advancing/promo.asp.

21. Order your video promoting the chaplaincy profession Our video on Chaplaincy, both a recruitment version (that begins and ends with “Is God Calling You?”), and a version without this question, is available in DVD format. The charge is just $6.00, the cost of production and shipping. You may preview the video at this link. To order copies please email Cindy Bridges for instructions.

22. Local/regional event dates We will begin adding our 2011 local events as the dates are set. We look forward to providing you information on them in future NACC Now's.

 Wednesday, January 19, 2011, New London, CT. See details.  Friday, February 11, 2011, Scottsdale, AZ. See details.  Saturday, March 5, 2011, LaGrange Park, IL. See details.  Friday, June 3, 2011, Camp Hill, PA. Details to come.

23. National Conferences of other Spiritual Care Collaborative partners Please visit the Spiritual Care Collaborative (SCC) website to view the national conferences of our SCC partners. www.spiritualcarecollaborative.org/events.asp

24. Healing Tree: a request for prayers Please let us know if you would like our membership to pray for your health and healing. Also please let us know when you want us to remove your name from our Healing Tree.

We continue to pray for: Linda Piotrowski (bi-lateral knee replacement surgery), Jim Castello (double knee replacement surgery), Joan Doherty (peaceful death/pancreatic cancer/sister of NACC member Elizabeth Walsh), Bonnie Burnett (at the death of her brother); Francis Potts (neck/spine surgery); Maureen Moran (ovarian cancer), Fr. James Radde, SJ (cancer), Sr. Mary Clare Boland, SP, Sr. Mary Ruth Krack, OSB (pancreatic cancer), Sr. Phyllis Ann DiRenzo (treatment for breast cancer), Jane Smith (macular hole in right eye – eye surgery), Kathy Brier (hospitalization-daughter of NACC member Theresa Brier), Ginny Conron (POP surgery), Marcella Keefe-Slager (lung cancer and treatment), Sr. John Marie Stack, OSF (lymphoma cancer), Gloria Troxler (preventive chemotherapy after ovarian surgery), Fr. Kevin Ikpah (eye troubles), Sr. Micheletta McGee, RSM (pancreatic cancer), Lourdes B. Ruta (wife of Peter Ruta, in recovery), Fr. Bob Nee, BCC, LICSW, CT (intractable epilepsy), Kelly Elizabeth Sexton (cancer: daughter of NACC member Melyssa Sexton), Fr. Bill Spacek (detached retina and other eye issues), Sr. Nancy Crane, OP (cancer treatment), and Sr. Hilda Mallet, MHS (cancer treatment).

25. 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.

DIRECTOR, MISSION SERVICES Fresno, CA - Saint Agnes Medical Center

CLINICAL PASTORAL EDUCATION (CPE) SUPERVISOR Rochester, MN - Mayo Clinic

RELIGIOUS SERVICES SPECIALIST (CHAPLAIN) Miami, FL- Krome Service Processing Center

26. Positions wanted In this time of change and uncertainty it is more important than ever to use every resource available. If you have lost your job recently, if you’re just seeking a new or better position, or if you are an employer seeking a chaplain for your organization, be sure to visit our Positions Wanted webpage. NACC members can take advantage of this free service by placing a job-seeking ad, for free, which will run for 60 days. To see the ads, visit www.nacc.org/positions/wanted.asp.

To place your own ad, send an email to Phil Paradowski: [email protected].

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