The Avoca Christian Church "Hands of Faith" ministry is a group of volunteers seeking to offer purposeful help to our community cancer patients and their families.

Goal:  To provide sensitive, emotional, physical, and spiritual care to the affected individuals and families by respecting a person's culture, religious tradition and faith commitments.  We maintain a respectful image as we reflect Jesus Christ's example through service, scripture, testimony, prayer, presence and a listening heart through acts and words of God's love, care and comfort.

We offer a number of different areas of ministry to cancer patients and their families:

Prayer Network:  A prayer network has been put in place to create a means by which those who desire prayer can voice their needs and have these requests faithfully and confidentially prayed for by the volunteer staff of Hands of Faith.

Transportation:  Providing helpful assistance for those who need transportation for an appointment, pharmacy visits or to the grocery store.

Service:  Visitation, prayer and being present with family members during surgery and recovery.

Soups after chemo/radiation treatments:  O'Charley's Restaurant in Johnson City provides Hands of Faith with potato and/or harvest chicken soup each week to be distributed to patients having chemo/radiation treatments.  We also have a group of volunteers that will cook soup, or whatever the patient feels like eating.

Yard work, cleaning, small maintenance

Prayer afghans

Card ministry

The Hands of Faith Ministry meets every 1st & 3rd Wednesday at 6:00 p.m. in the Fellowship Hall.

If you would like more information about our "Hands of Faith" ministry, please contact our Parish Nurse, Pam Cole, at 967-7469.