The Reformed Church of America website has a great collection of articles about how your church can minister to and with the elderly in your congregation. Not a subject you see mentioned a lot, but certainly an important element of any church community.
Ministry to, for, and with senior adults
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August 4, 2006 at 09:26
We’re definitely going to see more ministry resources for seniors crop up in churches as all these first-wave Baby Boomers retire. I guess congregations are going to have to confront the issue that you can’t just shove the elderly aside and ignore them.
AC
August 4, 2006 at 09:55
I think we do not realize how important it is to reach out to senior adults. At one of the nursing homes in our area, a poster hangs with a picture of a senior adult and the caption, “The sun setting is no less beautiful than the sun rising.” If only we believed and acted on this in our society. But…ministry to seniors is time consuming, with no reward, isn’t it? Adults on fixed incomes can barely afford medicines, let alone recompensing ministries used, such as drives to doctors or food vouchers or personal assistants…sometimes, the senior is in a semi-conscious state, incommunicado for the one who chooses to visit. One thing the rest of the world has right is that age is a blessing, a reason to respect, not an excuse to avoid, someone. We have made age a cultural curse in our nation. I think of how Abraham was reproved by pharaoh after Abraham placed Sarah in jeopardy. We are reproved by the ungodly around us who care deeply for their aged ones, admittedly imperfectly, but at least they care in the first place.