Anna Chaplaincy Easy Guides
Anna Chaplaincy Easy Guides offer ideas and inspiration for churches in their work with
older people. Drawn from the rich experience of Anna Chaplains across the UK, they
provide pointers for getting started in a variety of contexts where older people’s spiritual
care is a focus.
Commissioned by an editorial group hosted by BRF Ministries, Anna Chaplaincy Easy Guides
are peer-reviewed and updated regularly so they provide the most up-to-date guidance.
They are freely available to download and share. The range of titles will continue to grow
as we receive suggestions from churches for helpful topics to cover.
Anna Chaplaincy Easy Guides give an overview and a handful of key points drawn from Anna Chaplaincy experience, with further resources listed for those wanting to find out more. BRF Ministries offers the guides in the sincere hope that they will contribute to excellent spiritual and pastoral care for older people.
You can download the available Easy Guides below.
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Easy Guide 1: Running a ‘Holiday at Home’
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Easy Guide 2: Linking care homes with local schools
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Easy Guide 3: Running Messy Vintage in community settings
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Easy Guide 4: Setting up a dementia café
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Easy Guide 5: Forging links with care homes
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Easy Guide 6: Enabling worship in care homes
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Easy Guide 7: Undertaking a pastoral visit for a person in their own home
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Easy Guide 8: Being present with someone who is dying
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Easy Guide 9: Praying with an older person
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Easy Guide 10: Recruiting and equipping volunteers to build
relationships with individual care home residents
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Easy Guide 11: Holding an annual celebration of age service
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Easy Guide 12: Taking Communion to individuals in their own home
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Easy Guide 13: Setting up a singing group for older people
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Easy Guide 14: How to support a bereaved person
Anna Chaplaincy Church Guides
Anna Chaplaincy Church Guides are designed to offer an accessible overview and then a more detailed look at the process and responsibilities of a local church/group of churches when considering this ministry. Some aspects may take time to develop, but there is a general expectation that these support structures and processes would be put in place locally in a timely manner, to enable a framework for flourishing, safe and effective ministry.
N.B. This process may vary slightly depending on personal or local context, such as a Head Licence Agreement already in place, existing ministry responsibilities, or licensing and safer recruitment protocols across denominations.
You can download the available Church Guides below.
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Church Guide 1: Setting up Anna Chaplaincy in your local church
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