CareMinistry Brief

    GSPC has been ministering to our neighbors at the Green Spring Rest Home for about 30 years. Each resident is adopted by one of our families who remember them on their birthdays, Christmas and other important times. Once a month a church group such as the elders, scouts, deacons, circles, choir, CE, CM and Sunday school sponsor a birthday party. We celebrate the birthdays of the month with singing, a short story, food, and sometimes games. For Christmas we have a church wide involvement with some 70 individuals of GSPC involved in giving gifts or helping with the food and the party. We need individual sponsors at times and help with the parties and food. There are often new residents who need to be adopted. Please let me know if you are interested in joining in this ministry. The residents look forward to our coming so much, and each of us come away feeling very blessed. Mary Jane 676-0663.

CAREMINISTRY HOSPITAL VISITATION: (Carolyn Deaton, John Kelly Clark) Ministry: Making sure all hospital patients are visited in the hospital and checked on after they go home… Letting the card, meal, and info line/ prayer ministries know about their status… Continuing to call or visit if they are not well and back to church or placing on the shut-in list…Involving others in visiting.

SHUT-IN VISITATION: (Yvonne Brown, Grace Garrett), Deacons Ministry: Frequently visit, call, send cards, pray for, and check on shut-ins (those that cannot get out and about by themselves). Identify any needs they may have and make referrals. Involve others in visiting.



A very special member of Green Spring Church, Dr. Jack Snider, who served for many years at King College, Bristol, TN, celebrated a birthday recently.  Dr. Snyder has been a faithful member of the church, a teacher, administrator, mentor, and guest preacher throughout the Presbytery.


WIDOWS/SINGLES: (Mary Jane Crosby) Deacons Ministry: Visit, call, send cards, and sponsor social and informative get-togethers. Provide a support group for individuals living alone.





Members of the Care Ministry, along with Santa entertain the Widows and Widowers and Single seniors of the church.  Refreshments are served, presents exchanged, and Christmas Joy is spread to all.


CARDS/NOTES: Sandra Wimmer. Helpers: Hope Humphrey (get-well), Nancy Lowry (thinking of you), Linda Hall (sympathy), Judy Mullins (shut-in), and Youth (rest home) Ministry: Cards being sent to those who are sick, in the hospital, grieving, or shut-in. Birthday cards are sent to the shut-ins and the GS Rest Home residents.

MEALS: (Jeanie Evans, Phyllis Briscoe ) Ministry: Meals are provided for church families after a hospitalization and funerals. The Green Spring Church area is geographically divided into local groups with about 70 people alternating to provide meals.

PRAYER CHAIN/INFO LINE: (Nancy Thompson/Bobbe Harris) Ministry: There is a telephone PrayerChain and an email Prayer & InfoLine. The telephone PrayerChain is started by calling Gilda Keller (626-3070), Hope Humphrey (628-3020), or Nancy Thompson (623-0615)…Receiving emailed prayer requests, calendar updates, or urgent church information from Bobbe Harris at bh7701@ntelos.net

SOCIAL: (Bubs Nichols Ministry): Plans and executes showers for church family new mothers and brides.






Pictures above depict a bridal shower for Sumer Lowry, a young bride preparing for marriage in the church.  Members of the Care Ministry Social Committee presented gifts, offered prayers of support, and generally shared good fellowship and fun times.

REST HOME: (Mary Jane Crosby, Angie Cooper, Maria Briscoe, Barbara King )Ministry: Monthly parties are sponsored by 12 different church groups… Individual families adopt the 23-25 residents for at least a year…Church sponsored Angel Tree/Christmas party.





Members of the Care Ministry, along the Green Spring Men's Gospel group entertain members at the Rest Home, with a special guest from the North Pole.

RETIREMENT CENTER: (Eleanor Preston) Ministry: Plan activities for the residents monthly & send cards on their birthdays.





Each year the Care Ministry Retirement Center Committee organizes a Christmas Party.  Here the Green Spring Men's singing Group entertains the group with gospel music, as gifts are exchanged and refreshments are served.

TRANSPORTATON/HONEY DO: John Kelly Ministry: Identify transportation or help needs of shut-ins/Retirement Center.




Volunteers do yard work and tidy up the property of Hope Humphery, a dear member of the congregation who lives alone in her home near the church. Many people, both pictured here, and not pictured here, do little blessings for our senior citizens who can no longer do all of the work around their homes or apartments.  This particular project was headed by the Session's Outreach Committee chaired by Preston Brown