Healing with Compassion: Transforming Healthcare Through Spiritual Care in 2025

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STRENGTHENING HEALTHCARE TOGETHER: 2025 Spiritual Ministry Partnership Goals

Adopting a Christian approach to healthcare requires more than good intentions; it necessitates a deliberate strategy to weave the Gospel's witness into every facet of hospital ministry. Like skilled surgeons, staff must use every interaction to demonstrate Christ's compassion and care. MBF partner mission hospitals are pioneering innovative, collaborative strategies to enhance their services. Emulating God's excellence, they strive to become their communities' top healthcare choice, distinguished by superior medical care and unparalleled support for patients and their families.

BEST PRACTICES FOR HOSPITAL SPIRITUAL MINISTRY 5

Spiritual assessments are included in the patient care plans, to create holistic approaches that consider a patient’s physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being.

A dedicated chaplaincy team supports patients, families, and staff spiritually by providing counseling, prayer, and religious rites.

Chapels, where patients, families, and staff can find peace, reflect, and pray, are constructed and maintained as sacred spaces to support spiritual growth.

Healthcare staff are trained to recognize and address the spiritual needs of patients. This can include basic spiritual care techniques and when to refer to a chaplain.

Local religious and spiritual organizations collaborate to offer additional support and resources to meet patients' spiritual needs after discharge.

By adopting these strategies, hospitals can ensure that spiritual care is an integral part of their healthcare delivery, addressing the whole person and supporting patients and families through their health journeys with compassion and respect for their spiritual needs.

2025 Primary Activities for MBF Partner Hospitals in Malawi

and Kenya

Our ultimate objective is to see that everyone served by an MBF global partner has opportunity to receive high quality health care and learn about Jesus and discover a lifelong relationship with God.

In 2025 we will focus on patients, staff, and local communities

1. Staff training and development in spiritual care. Ensuring staff competency and engagement in spiritual care delivery while enhancing their own spiritual well-being and formation.

2. Patient spiritual care. Delivering meaningful and measurable spiritual care throughout the patient care journey, integrating spiritual services into medical care for holistic healing.

3. Hospital communal spiritual engagement. Fostering a thriving spiritual community through worship, prayer, and collective activities, encouraging participation among staff and patients.

4. Organizational integration of spiritual ministry. Embedding spiritual care into core hospital policies and daily operations. Integrating spiritual ministry with the hospital’s mission, vision, and values.

2025 BUDGET

Envisioning Conference

Church Partner Planning

Hospital/Clinic Planning

Training Implementation Group Support

Scripture Resources

Leadership & Implementation Team Costs

Monitoring & Adaptation

Evaluation & Learnings

Reports to All Partners

Targeted Partner Hospital Outcomes

• Workshops engagement with hospital leadership, staff and churches to solidify partnerships.

• Conduct spiritual care needs assessment and baseline survey.

• Recruit and train Spiritual Ministry team members.

• Develop a detailed Spiritual Ministry Implementation Plan tailored to the hospital's mission and values.

• 80% of staff trained in spiritual care.

• Spiritual care integrated into 50% of patient interactions.

• Organize weekly devotions and chapel sessions, increasing staff's regular involvement to 66%.

TOTAL BUDGET

$310,000

• Update HR and operational policies to include spiritual care, including recruitment & orientation.

• Conduct regular monitoring, six-month evaluations.

• Document best practices and lessons learned. Share outcomes with stakeholders.

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