Healthcare Ministry Basics

for LeadersOur Ministry

Course Plan

Our Our MinistryMinistry

ChurchChurch

Catholic Catholic Social Social

TeachingTeaching

Jesus’Jesus’MinistryMinistry

SponsorshipSponsorship

Moral Instincts Moral Instincts ERDsERDs

ApplicationApplicationto My Roleto My Role

Ministry• ...is SERVICE that is done to WITNESS to what we believe

• …is SERVICE that is done in the NAME of the CHURCH..

• ...demonstrates what we believe about persons and relationships

• ...provides services to meet human and social needs

Traditional Ministries of the Church

• Worship• Education /

Evangelization• Social Service

• Healing• Justice

Our Healthcare Work as Ministry

• Spirituality– A conviction that there is

more to life, people and events than meets the eye

– Gives meaning to what we do and what happens in our organizations

– Sees the presence of God in the events of ordinary life

– “God is at work at work!”

Discussion and Reflection• Read directives 1-3

in the ERD• What difference

does / could it make ...– if I view my work as

ministry versus job?– when we focus on

our call to use our gifts for the good of the whole human family?

Mission & Ministry of Jesus Christ

Mission & Ministry of the Mission & Ministry of the ChurchChurch

Mission & Ministry of Mission & Ministry of SponsorSponsor

Mission of Mission of OrganizationOrganization

Ministry of Ministry of Leaders/EmploLeaders/Emplo

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Our work is rooted in the mission and ministry of Jesus and the Catholic Church