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Back to School: also means carrying backpacks!

Most backpacks are constructed with padded shoulder straps, which reduce pressure on the shoulders. Additionally, the waist strap should be used to help distribute the weight to the lower back. The backpack should sit evenly in the middle of the back thus distributing the weight on the child’s growing spine. A maximum weight of 15% of the body weight is what should be carried. For example, if you weigh 80 pounds you can carry only 12 pounds or less. Remember, As the twig is bent, so grows the tree. Reports from emergency rooms related to backpack injuries indicate that it is not from wearing them as much as tripping over them or being hit by them.

General Backpack Safety means:
Wear them properly
Hang them on a hook, chair, or table off the floor.
Explain the dangers of swinging backpacks around.
Use backpacks with wheels for extra-heavy loads and for young children.
 
Backpack safety is for all ages used with permission from “Wellness Tip of The Week”, © 2003 written by JoAnn C. Kauss, RN, MSN, St. Malachy Catholic Church, Kennedy Twp., PA.
    
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HEALTH MINISTRY

Continuing Jesus' Mission of Love and Healing

"Individuals exhibit a body-mind-spirit unity; whatever affects one area has implications for the other two areas. Jesus' ministry encompassed the whole person. Jesus demonstrated and taught that to show love is to desire wholeness and healing for others. Given the accounts of the miracles performed by Jesus, the Master was engaged in acts of healing more often than in almost anything else. Jesus commissioned the apostles to perform acts of healing. If our ministry is to be a reflection of His ministry, healing should be a part of the services we offer."

For most individuals, the experience of illness, injury, surgery, hospitalization, and/or recuperation causes significant changes in physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being. The Health Ministries of the parish attempt to assist individuals and families to attain and maintain well-being in body, mind, and spirit.

Health Ministry Committee

CONTACT INFORMATION:

For more information contact Ann Marie Labin, R.N., Pastoral Associate for Health Ministry/Parish Nurse at 410-683-0600 option#1 or alabin@sjpmd.org

MEETINGS:

Health Ministry Committee meets every other month on the third Monday of every other month in the Parish Center at 7 pm in room #2 B
Please come join us!

Ministries Available

Service Ministries

Assisting parishioners in attaining and maintaining health and well-being in body, mind, and spirit.


Parish Nurse is a specialized practice of professional nursing that focuses on the intentional care of the spirit as part of the process of promoting wholistic health and preventing or minimizing illness in a parish. The Parish Nurse "understands health to be a dynamic process, which embodies the spiritual, psychological, physical, and social dimensions of the person." The Parish Nurse is "a friend in healthcare, who can help parishioners of all ages understand their health conditions and medications, and navigate the health system" with CARE:

  • C-counselor - Discussing health issues and problems with individuals making home, hospital, and nursing home visits as needed.
  • A-advocate - Works with the parishioner, faith community, and primary health resource to provide what is in the best interest of the parishioner from a whole person perspective, to enable individuals and families to have their questions, concerns and fears alleviated.  Adovate may include organizing and finding facilitators for groups interested in health issues of body, mind, or spirit. 
  • R-referral Agent/Liaison - Referrals are provided to other church/diocesan resources as well as resources in the community at large.
  • E-educator - Promotes an atmosphere where individuals of all ages, through a variety of educational activities, explore the relationship between values, attitudes, lifestyle, faith, and health.
  • Blood Pressure Screening at Sunday Fellowship Gatherings and during the week in the Parish Office when available.
  • Follow-up Calls to some parishioners after hospital discharge.

  • Health Information available at Sunday Fellowship Gatherings on national health observances of the month. 

Anointing of the Sick: A Priest will administer the Sacrament of the Sick to a parishioner in the home, in a nursing home/assisted living facility, or hospice facility. Contact the Parish Office at 410-683-0600 option #1.

Eucharistic Ministers to the Homebound and/or Recuperating:  Volunteers bring Eucharist to parishioners in their homes, nursing home facilities, assisted living facilities, and hospice facilities. Contact Ann Marie Labin at 410-683-0600 option #1 or alabin@sjpmd.org

Handyman Service: Volunteers will make minor repairs or install needed safety equipment in the homes of the elderly or infirmed. Contact Ann Marie Labin at 410-683-0600 option #1 or alabin@sjpmd.org

Hospital Visitations (Due to HIPAA guidelines, please notify the Parish Office to ensure we are aware of you or your loved one's hospitalization.) Parish Staff members will attempt to visit parishioners in local hospitals. Contact the Parish Office at 410-683-0600 option #1.

Mass of Anointing is offered at least three times throughout the year on Sunday at 3 pm.

Transportation Ministry:  Volunteers will drive parishioners to and from medical appointments and Parish events and Liturgies. Contact Ann Marie Labin at 410-683-0600 option #1 or alabin@sjpmd.org  

Young Adult Ministry: Young adults will assist senior and/or infirmed parishioners with small projects and errands. Contact Ann Marie Labin at 410-683-0600 option #1 or alabin@sjpmd.org

 Prayer Support Services

Card Ministry: Cards from the Parish Staff are sent to parishioners who are discharged from the hospital to remind them they are in our prayers.

Queen of Peace Rosary Ministry: Parishioners in this ministry will visit homebound and/or recuperating parishioners to pray the rosary with them monthly. For more information call Bill Brown at 443-212-5047.

Intercessory Prayer Groups:

  • Monday Morning Women's Prayer Group meets every Monday morning in room #2 of the Parish Center from 9:15 am to 10:30 am. For more information call Kathy Sullivan at 410-252-6149. All Women are welcome!
  • Thursday Evening Prayer Group meets every Thursday evening in room #1 of the Parish Center from 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm. For more information call Sylvia or David Spring at 410-666-3141. All are welcome to join!!!
  • Ministry of Prayer: Volunteers receive a monthly mailing of prayer requests, which they include in their daily prayers.  Please write all prayer requests on the provided prayer request note sheets at Mary's Altar in the Church and place them in a box provided. For more information call Maureen Clark at 410-683-0600 option #1.
  • Prayer Shawl/Lap Blanket Ministry:  Volunteers knit or crochet prayer shawls or lap blankets for parishioners experiencing illness, injury, grieving a loss, chemo therapy, hospice, or hospitalization to provide comfort and peace.  The volunteers pray for the recipients of the shawl or lap blanket as they are making each stitch.  Some shawls and blankets are also made for happy celebrations.  Volunteers are also needed at this time to assist St. Joseph Medical Spiritual Care Department with a new Prayer Shawl Ministry. Our Ministry has partnered with the SJMC to provide them with prayer shawls and lap blankets. For more information contact Ann Marie Labin at 410-683-0600 option #1 or alabin@sjpmd.org
  • Ranger Rosary Ministry: Volunteers make Ranger Rosaries for Armed Forces Soldiers in harm's way.  As they are making the rosaries, they are praying for the soldiers and their families. Completed Rosaries are sent with a St. Michael the Archangel prayer card and a "How to Pray the Rosary Prayer Card." Some of the rosaries are also sent with notes from parishioners making the rosaries or other parishioners.  The Ministry has received generous donations to purchase the supplies to make the rosaries and to mail them to Chaplains in Iraq and Afghanistan. For more information contact Ann Marie Labin at 410-683-0600 option #1 or alabin@sjpmd.org

  • Labyrinth is a meditative prayer tool available for parishioners or groupd to borrow.  The Labyrinth is a 30-foot portable painted Chartres design Labyrinth.  For more information Contact Ann Marie Labin at 410-683-0600 option #1 or alabin@sjpmd.org

    Other Ministries

    American Red Cross Blood Drives: The Parish hosts 3-4 Blood Drives annually. For more information call Ann and Walt Brooksbank at 410-628-7461

    Blood Pressure Screening at Fellowship Gathering the last sunday of most months.

     

 
    

 
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