Patient Support

Pastoral Care

Pastoral care is about relationships -including relationships within the spiritual realm, with what is beyond or transcends all of us. Pastoral care providers can assist people with cancer on their journey, accompanying them, offering spiritual companionship. They seek to join cancer patients in this experience, serving as a resource for strength, refuge and belonging.

 By building relationships based on trust, integrity, honesty, respect and confidentiality, pastoral care providers can be of service to patients as they seek to understand what is going on within themselves and their lives.

 By building relationships based on trust, integrity, honesty, respect and confidentiality, pastoral care providers can be of service to patients as they seek to understand what is goin on within themselves and their lives.

 A pastoral care provider's mindful presence encourages patients to express their emotions, thoughts, hopes and fears. They strive to listen deeply and receptively, supporting patients without being intrusive. The relationship between a pastoral care provider and patient often results in conversations of great revelation and significance to a person living with cancer.

 Accepting a diagnosis, undergoing treatment, and living with a serious illness may evoke examination and evaluation of beliefs, values and meanings. It's a time when a people seek to understand their life's purpose. It's a time of many questions. Cancer patients often desire support in such moments. With the fellowship of a pastoral care provider, the can learn much about the value and integrity of their life and what truly matters. Often the result is an intentional, more conscious approach to living.