AR 2018 Spreads

Pastoral Care
From its beginning in 2016 with one chaplain, pastoral care
added four volunteers in 2017. All came to Mercy Care with
extensive training in pastoral skills. By being present and talking
to patients in the waiting room, Sister Kathy Komarek and
her volunteer recruits—Sister Pat Sullivan, Sal Arias, Marian
Monahan and Dr. Jim Keller—provide comfort, lift spirits and
often affirm the deep faith they find in our patients. According
to a patient who is going through chemotherapy while living
in his car, “I am very grateful and indebted for the staff I have
encountered. I have been shown true love in difficult times.
Mercy Care has been a gift from the Most High to rebuild a
broken man into wholeness.”
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