October 31st for Spiritual Care Day event – 8:00a-4:00p at the Carterville Civic Center Be sure to register by October 24th

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Hello all!
I encourage you to join us on Monday October 31st for SIH Spiritual Care Day.

This is an annual event that gives our SIH Spiritual Care staff and volunteers, as well as our area faith community leaders, the opportunity for continuing education, networking and self care.
This year we have a special speaker who wrote the book “See Me As a Person — Creating Therapeutic Relationships with Patients and their Families.”
Mary Koloroutis MSN, RN will give the program with the focus on how we can provide compassionate, “relationship based” care to others.  

Mary believes . . .”The responsibility to offer compassionate care to another human being is something we all share.
Therapeutic relationships help those in our care to cope with illness and to take ownership for healing and health.”

Chaplains, clergy, faith community leaders, Faith Community Nurses and Congregational Health Promoters are welcome!

It is free, and continental breakfast and lunch are included.
It will be at the Carterville Civic Center from 8am – 4pm. RSVP’s are required by October 24th to Ana Kelly at 618.457.5200 ext 67801 or ana.kelly@sih.net.

Please share this invitation with those you feel would benefit.
5 hours of continuing education credit will be available for registered nurses

Thank you — Hope to see you!

“Beloved, I wish above all things that you may prosper and be in good health, even as your soul prospers.”   3 John 2

Jo Sanders BSN RN
Faith Community Nurse
Health Ministry Coordinator
Southern Illinois Healthcare
Community Benefits Department
1239 East Main Street
Carbondale, IL   62901
(618) 457-5200  x 67830
(618) 922-4539 (cell)
jo.sanders@sih.net

Southern Illinois Healthcare is dedicated to promoting the health and well being of all of the people in the communities we serve.

**Nominations must be received by Dec. 19, 2016** MLK Planning Committee Seeks Nominations for 2017 Spirit of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Service Award

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Note:  If you are nominating a group, include both the group name and the name and phone number of the group’s contact person. Up to four letters of reference may be submitted.  Nominations must be received by Dec. 19, 2016.

For Immediate Release

Contact: Pastor Christopher E. Swims, 618-529-3975 or pastorswims@hopewellmb.org

MLK Planning Committee Seeks Nominations for 2017 Spirit of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Service Award

Carbondale, Ill. – The planning committee for the 18th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Celebration requests nominations for the Spirit of Dr. King, Jr. Community Service award. Nominations will be accepted from Jackson and Williamson Counties.  The award will be presented at the Celebration on Sunday, January 15, 2017 at 4p.m. at the Carbondale Civic Center.

The Spirit of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Service Award recognizes an individual or group that exemplifies the character and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.  Nominees should have enacted or modeled a spirit of community service in the manner of Dr. King. For nomination forms visit www.cdaleinterfaith.org or email pastorswims@hopewellmb.org.

If you are nominating a group, include both the group name and the name and phone number of the group’s contact person. Up to four letters of reference may be submitted.  Nominations must be received by Dec. 19, 2016.

Previous honorees include Pepper Holder, Senator Paul Simon,(posthumously), NAACP Carbondale Chapter, Linda Flowers, Milton and Corene McDaniel, SIUC Associate Chancellor Dr. Seymour Bryson, Lillian Adams, Mary O’Hara, Marjorie Parker, Hugh Muldoon, Donna Haynes, Margaret Nesbitt and Genevieve Houghton, Rev. Rick Jackson, Rev. Doug Cherry and John Cherry, retired CCHS educator Mary Sasse, Rev. Bill Sasso and Richard Hayes (posthumously), Anne Marie Shepherd, and Pastor Sonja Ingrebritsen.

Nominations must be postmarked by Dec. 19, 2016 or received via email by that date. Email forms to pastorswims@hopewellmb.org or mail the nominations to:

 

MLK Award Committee

Att: Pastor Swims

400 East Main

Carbondale, IL 62901

 

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Resolution in Support of Economic Justice and Responsible Environmental Stewardship

Resolutions

Whereas the purpose of the Carbondale Interfaith Council is to make God’s love visible, and we seek to make that love more present throughout our community, region, and nation; and

Whereas each of our faith traditions embodies concern and respect for the well-being of all peoples, especially those in disadvantaged situations, as well as commitment to responsible stewardship of the Earth and its bounties; and

Whereas Good Samaritan Ministries, a project of the Carbondale Interfaith Council, and initiatives undertaken by our member faith communities themselves both give us direct understanding of the inequities and injustice present in our current economic system, which often grievously fails those most vulnerable in our society, and puts the welfare of so many hard-working individuals and families at risk;

Therefore, be it resolved that the Carbondale Interfaith Council stands in solidarity with those – like participants in the “Occupy” movement – who oppose the continued support of systems that create and amplify economic injustice and/or non-sustainable environmental practices;

Be it further resolved, that the Carbondale Interfaith Council calls upon our member faith communities to speak and to take action in support of economic justice, environmental sustainability, and the common welfare, as instructed by each community’s own religious traditions and teachings; and

Be it further resolved that the Carbondale Interfaith Council calls upon all those elected as representatives, at the local, state, and federal levels, to create, enact, and implement legislation that embodies the concept of economic justice within our nation, and that helps transform the global economy into one of economic justice, equality of opportunity, and responsible environmental stewardship; and

Be it finally resolved that the Carbondale Interfaith Council abhors and condemns any use of violence towards those who exercise their freedoms of speech and assembly in a responsible and sincere manner.

Resolution for Endorsement of the Charter for Compassion by the Carbondale Interfaith Council

Resolutions

Whereas the purpose of the Carbondale Interfaith Council is to make God’s love visible, and human compassion is a powerful and direct expression of that love, and

Whereas each of our faith traditions includes an affirmation of compassion within the core of its wisdom and teachings, and

Whereas the world around us, both within our own community and far beyond its boundaries, cries out for greater compassion in human words and actions,

Therefore, be it resolved that the Carbondale Interfaith Council affirms the Charter for Compassion and will add its name to the online list of those who have endorsed the Charter, and

Be it further resolved that the Council, its member faith communities, and we as individual representatives of those faith communities will continue and extend our efforts to embody compassion in our thoughts, words, and deeds, and

Be it further resolved that the Carbondale Interfaith Council will support efforts within the community for certifying Carbondale as a Compassionate City.