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    A Caregiver's Calling: Ministry Experiences of Those Called to Serve the Vulnerable
    A Caregiver's Calling: Ministry Experiences of Those Called to Serve the Vulnerable
    A Caregiver's Calling: Ministry Experiences of Those Called to Serve the Vulnerable
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    A Caregiver's Calling: Ministry Experiences of Those Called to Serve the Vulnerable

    By Marlys Jean Olson

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    Jesus said, I give you a new commandment: love one another. As I have loved you, so you also should love one another (John 13:34).

    One line in the Prayer of St. Francis reads, For it is in giving that we receive. It is my belief and the intent of this book to emphasize these two points. As caregivers, we are to love as Jesus loves. This love is selfless and unconditional. When we love like this, the line from St. Franciss prayer is fulfilled for us. It is in giving that we receive. As we grow in Jesus love, we find that we not only receive but receive far more than we give. I wrote this book to assist anyone involved in any type of ministry to realize in their lives this reciprocal nature of service to one another, and have enlisted the help of others with varied backgrounds in ministry to offer their assistance as well.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWestBow Press
    Release dateAug 8, 2013
    ISBN9781490803999
    A Caregiver's Calling: Ministry Experiences of Those Called to Serve the Vulnerable
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    Marlys Jean Olson

    Marlys Jean Olson is a chaplain at St, Joseph’s Medical Center in Brainerd, Minnesota. She has a lifetime of experience working in ministry through nursing homes, home care, hospitals, education, and as a guardian ad litem.

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      A Caregiver's Calling - Marlys Jean Olson

      Copyright © 2013 Marlys Jean Olson.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the publisher except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

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      ISBN: 978-1-4908-0400-2 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4908-0399-9 (e)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2013913946

      WestBow Press rev. date: 8/8/2013

      Table of Contents

      Introduction

      CHAPTER 1 In the Beginning

      Marlys Jean Olson

      CHAPTER 2 Ministry as a Chaplain

      Marlys Jean Olson

      CHAPTER 3 The Example of Jesus in Caring for Others

      Barry Olson

      CHAPTER 4 Ministry with the Elderly

      Barry Olson

      CHAPTER 5 Who’s Ministering to Whom?

      Barry Olson

      CHAPTER 6 Kindred Spirits

      Father Paul Fruth

      CHAPTER 7 My Life in Ministry

      Vern Broughton

      CHAPTER 8 Forgiveness and Mercy

      Marlys Jean Olson

      CHAPTER 9 Jack’s and Fran’s Stories

      Marlys Jean Olson

      CHAPTER 10 Ministry of the Funeral Profession

      Rodney Thompson

      CHAPTER 11 Family Ministry

      Marlys Jean Olson

      CHAPTER 12 John’s Story

      Marlys Jean Olson

      CHAPTER 13 Healing and Grief

      Marlys Jean Olson

      CHAPTER 14

      CHAPTER 15 Scripture Readings

      CHAPTER 16 Prayers

      Marlys Jean and Barry Olson

      In the history of humankind no one has ever spoken or heard the words I love you too many times.\

      —Barry Olson

      For my mother and father, whose unconditional love presented God’s love to me at a very young age and taught me the importance of service to others as a way of life.

      For my fifteen siblings, who taught me to give and take, and to trust and depend on others.

      For my husband, our four children, their spouses, and our grandchildren: my family, my love, my life.

      For my co-workers who have supported me and witnessed to me by their lives how to love and serve. I couldn’t ask for better examples.

      Acknowledgments

      I am deeply grateful to my husband of many years for his love, patience, and expertise, on which I have relied heavily to complete this book. I thank him also for sharing ministry with me and teaching me skills that helped form me into the minister that I am. I also thank Father Paul Fruth for his love, support, and encouragement. I am thankful for all who have contributed to my book and who share their faith and ministries with me.

      Introduction

      I have worked in a hospital as a chaplain for thirteen years. Ministry, loving and caring for others, began when I was a child. I felt compelled to reach out to and care for the ones that no one else seemed to. My father set a good example for me as he cared for and loved others as Jesus did. Writing this book is a way for me to share my passion, caring for others, with those who find themselves in the position of caring for a loved one or a friend or working in a caring profession. Caregiving is a part of everyone’s life at one time or another. My book also shares ways to draw closer to God as one ministers.

      The call to ministry is different for each of us. It seems that my call has always been a part of who I am. I attended Catholic school as a child. After I graduated from high school, I married the love of my life, and we raised our four daughters in a small town. I feel that being a wife and mother has been a part of my training for ministry. I tried my best to treat my husband and children with respect and unconditional love. I reached out to my church family, especially the elderly and the sick. Sharing the selfless love of Christ with others has been a great source of fulfillment and joy for me.

      My formal training to become a chaplain began when I decided to go to college after my children were grown, at the age of forty. I was frightened to return to school after all the years away but was convinced that this was God’s plan for me. At this time I had no idea what I would do with a degree in pastoral ministry. Soon I

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