Pastoral Care Team
Welcome to the Brechin & Farnell Parish Church Pastoral Care Page
Thank you for visiting! We are here to support you and your loved ones in times of need. If there is any way we can help, please don’t hesitate to reach out.
We have a dedicated email address: care@brechinfarnellchurch.org
Feel free to contact us—we are here to listen, support, and walk beside you.
Our motto is Faith in Action, Love in Motion ❤️
Exciting News!
We are delighted to share that, thanks to generous funding from the NHS Tayside Charitable Foundation, we will have our own Older People’s Wellbeing Companion in post for the next two years. This important new role will strengthen the support offered by our Pastoral Care Team and help us continue to provide compassionate, practical care to those who need it.
Heather, as leader of the Pastoral Care Team, was tasked with preparing and submitting the funding application. This involved a great deal of careful planning, hard work and commitment, and we are very grateful for everything she did to bring the application together. We were thrilled to learn that her efforts had been successful and that the funding had been secured.
The recruitment process was not an easy one for Heather and Adriaan. We received a large number of applications from many impressive candidates, and they found much to appreciate in everyone who applied. After carefully reviewing the applications and thoughtfully considering each candidate, they faced the difficult task of making a final decision. We are now very pleased to announce that they chose… Kariann Douglas! 👏
To learn a bit more on of Kariann click here 🙏
About our Pastoral Care Team
In October 2023 the Brechin and Farnell pastoral care team started an eight session spiritual care learning course to help us deepen our understanding and give us additional skills and confidence to support older people in our congregation and in our communities.
The Spiritual Care Series is a highly effective course developed by leading practitioners in the care of older people, including Professor John Swinton from Aberdeen University. The course is licensed by Bible Reading Fellowship (BRF) and Anna Chaplaincy for older people in the UK, who are taking a lead nationally in quality of support for older peoples’ ministry
The ministry recognises that ‘a person is not truly healthy if he or she is struggling to understand the meaning and purpose for their life’
The group met every two weeks for two hours and we worked our way through the eight modules, we had reading to complete before each session and there was an assessment to be passed on completion of the module. Areas that were covered included understanding the ageing process, communication and the power of storytelling, dementia and end of life and bereavement.
These sessions gave us the opportunity to gain insights and understanding across a range of areas which can be challenging to talk about, while getting to know each other better and share our stories of caring and ageing.
We have now developed a flyer for the pastoral care group and if you would like to talk to one of our team please get in touch. Three members of the team have also completed the NHS Tayside community listening training. The pastoral care team is a team with both Brechin and Farnell members and will work across both churches, wherever we are needed.
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