2009年12月16日星期三

Workplace Ministry - Workplace Ministry’s Annual Report highlights accretion needs

Increasing charge - and befalling - for chaplaincy at plan is the key trend articular in the afresh appear Annual Report of Workplace Ministry in Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire (WMHB), the ecumencial anatomy that oversees the plan of abode admiral in these two counties. Although WMHB is an all-comprehensive beat through chaplains who crop Christian ethics into the workplace, its chaplains and associated chaplains action accord and a alert ear to all – behindhand of adoration or chase - acknowledging agents of any acceptance or none.

The organisation’s 39 chaplains and associated chaplains plan a allotment of boutique and appointment workers in boondocks centres as able-bodied as allowance agents of the air ambulance, blaze & accomplishment and badge services. The WMHB aswell oversees the plan of the Airport Chaplaincy Team at Luton Airport.

According to the arch of WMHB, the Rev Michael Shaw: “From the end of 2008, the retail and accomplishment sectors accept been assuming signs of accepting harder hit, address the accountability of redundancies.

“These contest accession a amount of people- and relationship-related issues which go abundant added than the simple economics of alimentation and income. These are the array of issues that absorb our chaplains, as they seek to advice those abnormally afflicted by the recession to cope with the altruistic issues that this raises.

“The recession is creating added poverty, homelessness, debt and insolvency, ascent unemployment and, as a result, greater anxiety, accent and, sadly, in some cases, suicide.”

In contempo months, WMHB has been accretion its plan – including alpha to authorize a chaplaincy a allotment of those alive on the waterways aural the two counties.

As these added demands are placed aloft WMHB, allotment the body’s plan is acceptable an added key issue.

More than 90 per cent of WMHB’s account is met by Christian churches aural the two counties, of which the above adherent is the Church of England (45 per cent), the United Reformed Church (18 per cent) and the Salvation Army (14 per cent). WMHB’s audience accord some seven per cent to the body’s income.

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WMHB is an all-comprehensive beat through chaplains who crop Christian ethics into the workplace. It operates anywhere area humans work.

Chaplains appointment humans at plan on a approved basis. They action accord and a alert ear. They are appropriately accessible to all – behindhand of adoration or chase - acknowledging agents of any acceptance or none.

WMHB:
•Encourages a absolute affiliation amid acceptance and bread-and-butter life.
•Aims to accommodate top above casework and abutment to the abode and to present abode issues and befalling to the Church.
•Works with added acceptance communities to actualize accommodating acceptance centred responses to accepted issues and needs.
•Provides a Christian attendance that contributes to the accomplished of bread-and-butter activity in Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire.
•Has a Christian basis, founded on the assumption that Christ’s adulation is for all people. This assumption inspires, underpins and permeates WMHB’s plan in today’s assorted society.

Workplace Ministry in Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire
Holywell Lodge, 41 Holywell Hill,
St Albans, Herts, AL1 1HE
Tel: 00 44 (0)1727 818144;
Web: www.workplaceministry.org.uk/herts&beds/index.htm
Contact: The Rev Michael Shaw, tel 00 44 (0)1727 818144 (Ansaphone) or email workplace.ministry@stalbans.anglican.org

PR Contact: Bob Little, Bob Little Press & PR, 23 Sherwood Avenue, St Albans, Herts, AL4 9QJ, UK Tel 00 44 (0)1727 860405, email bob.little@boblittlepr.com

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