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Ways to Connect with People with HIV/AIDS |
You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart,
with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind, and
your neighbor as yourself. Jesus
Congregations
Pastors and trained lay leaders donate time to persons with HIV/AIDS who
need spiritual guidance.
Reach out with confidentiality to neighbors who are battling HIV.
Offer support groups to people living with HIV/AIDS.
Support an organization that helps people living with AIDS.
Offer HIV education and training to the congregation.
Invite Wayne Smith to share about Samaritan Ministry at Central Baptist
Bearden in Knoxville. Its a good model for other congregations to follow.
Pastors: To speak with a well-informed pastor, call Rev. Johnie Skinner,
senior pastor at Mt. Zion Baptist Church, 522-2715.
Samaritan Ministry: Wayne Smith, Central Baptist Bearden, 450-1000,
ext. 827
Grocery delivery.
Furniture/emergency needs.
Education.
Social activities.
Positively Living: Rev. Dee Crumm, 525-1540, RevDeeCrumm@cs.com
Build friendships with clients.
Read to clients (Tues/Thurs 10 a.m.-1 p.m.).
Office help: Answer phones, mailings, help with newsletter.
Help with food pantry.
Hope Center: Dr. Jeannie Gillian, 541-3767, jgillian@covhlth.com
Big need: community education, attorneys and dentists
Adopt child with AIDS or child of parent with AIDS, supply Christmas
gifts.
Run errands, make deliveries.
Family Opportunity Kids on the Block: Tonya Cash, 524-7483.
Puppet program: They go into schools and do skits all topics,
including HIV, depression and child abuse.
Need a commitment (practices and performances are scheduled).
Will train on puppets.
Great Starts: Sheena Curley, 521-5613
High-risk nursery/daycare/drug treatment
Play and spend time with toddlers and babies.
Feed and clean babies.
Helen Ross McNabb Center: Vicki Catapano, 523-8695, ext. 1215
Focus on prevention, outreach to community (e.g., go to bars) and
school-based programs.
Centerpoint: April Ella, 523-4704
Education, prevention, training information. |
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