NURSING HOME MINISTRY

Coordinator: Cliff Pulliam

Scriptural Mission: James 1:27 (NIV) - "Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world".

Program: On each Monday night at 6 p.m., a group of members from the Sandstone Drive Church of Christ go to Southwest Nursing Home to conduct a short devotional. During this time, a group of men lead singing, give short talks and pray. This program has been in existence at Sandstone for approximately 25 years. The residents of the home seem to enjoy this very much. We do this because James 1:27 tells us "to look after widows and orphans".

Profile of a Nursing Home Resident (Erma Stevens)

Southwest Nursing Home has some very special people the Sandstone members enjoy visiting and worshipping with on Monday nights. For some of these residents, there are no family near and thus they have adopted Sandstone and Sandstone has adopted them.

Erma Stevens is one of these very special people. Erma has been institutionalized for 30 years and 28 of these at Southwest. Of all the friends from Sandstone, Erma never forgets any of them. She has developed a real friendship (sisterhood) with several of our ladies such as Lillian and Patsy. This group likes to go with Erma to lunch at Wendy's and shopping at The Family Dollar Store and Sawyer's Market.

Look how happy Erma is in the picture above and in this picture. We all need to strive to be more like Erma.