Our Care Team Schedule is now available online! The Lotsa Helping Hands Care Team Page lists needs of the PHPC community.   When someone is in need of a meal or a ride to the doctor or has another need, we will list the ways you can help.  If you would like to help with a particular need, you can join this community, where you will have access to the calendar.  If you would like to be notified when there is a new need posted, please sign up for updates.  We hope this site will allow members of our congregation to be involved in caring for one another and building up the community of Christ. Please consider joining us today. Just click here to get started.

We pray…

A group of people in our congregation is committed to praying for people in our congregation and community. Our prayer chain list of concerns and praises is sent via e-mail to all who are on the prayer chain. The prayer chain e-mail address is shinxt@aol.com. Shannon Hudson is the prayer chain coordinator. We also have a list of prayer requests on the white board in our church office.

Another way we offer a prayer opportunity is to Walk the Labyrinth.  Our prayer Labyrinth is located in a beautiful wooded area outside of the Education Building.  If you would like to take some quiet time for prayer and listening to God, go for a walk in the Labyrinth.

Our Labyrinth is now listed in the World Wide Labyrinth Locator. Click here for details.

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We listen…

Our new “visitors” ministry is a program of our congregation that equips lay persons to provide distinctively Christian one-to-one care to those who are experiencing all kinds of life needs and circumstances, both in our congregation and community.

There are times when each of us needs the care of another person, a Christian friend, a “visitor.” These needs include but are not limited to:

• The hospitalized
• People who move into or out of our community
• Those grieving a death or serious loss
• Those with a job crisis
• The aging and elderly
• Those with disabilities and their families
• Those needing the support of a Christian friend
• Those facing life transitions
• The separated or divorced
• Households experiencing birth or adoption
• Those in spiritual crisis
• Couples dealing with infertility

People who would like to meet with a visitor can call the church office or speak to a minister. The visitor will contact the person to set up a time for visiting. Holly Tickle, Associate Pastor heads up this program.

We reach out…

The new Gwinnett Medical Center in Duluth just opened its doors in the fall of 2007. Pleasant Hill held training classes for volunteers to work at the hospital. Many of our members work in the gift shop, on patient floors, in the computer library and more.

Another way we give Pastoral Care is through our support to Peachtree ChristianHospice, Inc.“A loving place of Rest, Comfort and Hope”

Peachtree Christian Hospice provides hospice care for the terminally ill patients. Volunteers do everything from answering phones at the Hospice to visiting a patient and offering prayer. There are many needs at the Hospice and each person has special ways to offer their help. Holly Tickle also is in charge of our hospice care. Pleasant Hill ministers and elders serve communion to Hospice patients and their families once a month.

*Training sessions are offered regularly throughout the year at Peachtree Christian Hospice.

We offer support…

Sometimes all that’s needed is a good hot meal. We have a program called Care Meals whereby individual members of the church will provide meals to our church families who need it. Be it a birth in the family, an illness, or the loss of a loved one, a volunteer from the church will prepare and deliver a meal. Our care meal coordinator is Kathi Burt.

At other times more is needed. Our Care Teams are available to serve by running errands, sitting with someone who is homebound, doing light chores, offering rides and much more. Our care team coordinator is Holly Tickle.

These are the ways we at Pleasant Hill Presbyterian Church minister to our church family and community spreading God’s love.

Holly Tickle
Associate Pastor for Pastoral Care