Adopt a Long Term Care Facility in your area

Your church could make a significant difference to a long term health care facility in your community. Choose a facility close to your church or one that has special meaning for your church.

When you have identified a facility you would like to “adopt”, contact us below to let us know!  We want to watch for ways that multiple churches might be able to work together to bless a facility in their area!

How can you serve these facilities and their staff?

First identify a contact person and get to know the facility’s needs and what forms of support are safely acceptable under Covid-19 restrictions. Then, prayerfully consider the following ideas.

Prayer

• Identify a prayer team from your church who will commit to pray for the needs of your adopted home. The team can meet on Zoom during this time of Covid-19.
• Organize prayer walks around the facility. Let the staff know about it! Make encouraging signs and welcome children to join you.
• Make a prayer mailbox and collect confidential prayer requests.

Food

• Plan a catered meal for the staff. You may consider collecting a special offering or partnering with another church to make this happen.
• Plan a potluck of dishes prepared by people from the church (requires approval from facility first).
• Prepare individual “grab and go” care packages for staff who are dehydrated from wearing masks and eat on the run. Granola bars and juice boxes are great options!

Personal Touches

• Cards and flowers are always welcome gestures.
• Consider involving families with young children to make drawings and cards which can be slipped into the car windshields of the staff.
• Care packages to pamper individual staff members. They could include take-home items such as chocolate, tea, nail polish, candles, a Christian CD. Be creative!
• Decorate a “tree of hope” and fill with prayer postcards and notes of encouragement that staff can pull off to read and keep in their pockets or take home. Consider themes around Christmas and Easter. Perhaps this can be kept outside the front entrance so church members can keep replenishing the notes.

Long Term Health Care Facilities in the Ottawa Area