Newton Community Matters March 2022

Newton Presbyterian Manor

Chaplain’s Corner

MARCH 2022

Newton Presbyterian Manor’s Art is Ageless® call for entries underway Senior artists in the Newton area are invited to participate in Newton Presbyterian Manor’s annual Art is Ageless® exhibit and juried art competition March 9 – 25.

Entries of artistic works will be accepted from any area artist who is 65 years of age or older to exhibit and/or compete for an opportunity to be featured in the Art is Ageless calendar in 2023. Entries will be accepted at Newton Presbyterian Manor until 5 p.m. on March 4.

Artists compete in nine categories, including painting, drawing, photography, quilting and sculpture and may be designated as amateur or professional. The complete rules and category listing is found online at www.ArtIsAgeless.org. Local competition winners will join winners from 14 other PMMA® communities to be judged at the systemwide level.

Artists may choose to enter the exhibit only. For the competition, works are to have been completed in the past five years (since January 2017).

Newton Presbyterian Manor plans to host an exhibit and reception in person for artists, residents and their guests. The exhibit will take place from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. March 9 – 25 along the west link by the Garden Apartments and a virtul exhibit will be posted on the community’s Facebook page for the public. The reception will take place at 2 p.m. on March 9 in the Chapel.

Winners will also be announced on Facebook. Artists, residents and their guests attending the reception should RSVP to Noelle Jost at 316-283-5400.

The Art is Ageless® program encourages Newton Presbyterian Manor residents and other area seniors to express their creativity through its annual competition, as well as art classes, musical and dramatic events, educational opportunities and current events discussions throughout the year. Newton Presbyterian Manor is a PMMA (Presbyterian Manors of Mid-America®) community.

Entry forms and information can be obtained by contacting Noelle at 316-283-5400 or ndickinson@pmma.org, or accessed online at ArtIsAgeless.org. u

The joy of the unexpected discovery

By Greg Schmidt, chaplain, Newton Presbyterian Manor

Do you love the spring as much as I do? I hope so! The thing I enjoy most about spring is discovery. I love watching plants begin to poke their little “heads” up through the soil. I love watching little buds as they emerge from barren branches.

And I can’t wait to buy the first of many flats of annuals and perennials and begin planting in the 25 or more pots I have around my house.

In the same vein, I love discovering “new” things about “old” stories. For instance, all I’d ever enjoyed about St. Patrick’s Day was searching for threeand four-leaf clovers. As a child my friends and I would walk and crawl over tufts of grass in search of a three-leaf clover … always secretly hoping to find a four-leaf one. Why? Just to be that lucky one who finds something few others can discover.

A few years ago I began to search for

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What I discovered was a beautiful, faith-building story of a Scottish-born boy named Maewyn Succat … turned captive of Irish raiders at the age of 16 … turned slave shepherd … turned Christian convert on the run from the law … turned Catholic Priest who was known as Patrick … turned sometimes imprisoned Catholic bishop … turned missionary to Ireland who used the three-leaf shamrock to teach about the Holy Trinity … who ministered for 30+ years … who one day died on March 17 in 461 A.D. Whew!

While I don’t know for sure, I choose to believe St. Patrick was spiritually driven by Matthew 28:19-20 where Jesus is recorded as having said, “Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit and teaching them to obey everything that I have commanded you. And remember, I am with you always,

to the end of the age.”

Did you know 2,000+ years ago, the later an idea came in the structure of a sentence, the more important the thought or teaching? That would mean “… teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you …” was the most important teaching Jesus offered in this set of commands. I believe St. Patrick knew that. Teaching Irish converts became his greatest passion. It drove his life with little or no thought given to his personal comfort. Spending time in prison, for St. Patrick and someone long before him, namely, the Apostle Paul, was understood to be a part of the process, not the problem.

God used that life, that priestbishop, that testimony, to transform the Irish people who had once enslaved him. What an unexpected and mercy-driven “pay back!”

We should all long to pay back our enemies with love, kindness and compassion. Sounds like something Jesus would do,

St. Patrick used the three-leaf shamrock to teach about the Holy Trinity.

doesn’t it? Perhaps forgetting self in order to serve others is exactly what becoming the lucky-onewho-finds-something-few-otherscan-discover is what our faith is all about. Humble yourself before the Lord … and crawl … or walk bowed … into the presence of the Almighty. And discover God discovering those at your doorstep who need to obediently follow His commands. u

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OUR MISSION: To provide quality senior services guided by Christian values.

Newton Presbyterian Manor receives 2022 Customer Experience Award Newton Presbyterian is a 2022 recipient of Pinnacle Quality Insight’s Customer Experience Award™. Newton Presbyterian Manor displays a continued dedication to providing Best in Class senior healthcare services, qualifying for the award in skilled nursing, assisted living and independent living.

By qualifying for the Pinnacle Customer Experience Award™, Newton Presbyterian Manor has satisfied the rigorous demand of scoring in the top 15 percent of the nation across a 12-month average.

“The Customer Experience Award reflects our employees’ hard work to live out our mission to provide quality senior services guided by Christian values,” said Emily Trask, executive director. “It means a lot that our residents and their families have confidence in our ability to meet their needs.”

Throughout its 73-year history of serving the community, Newton Presbyterian Manor has placed a strong emphasis on ensuring that the individual needs of every resident are met. Over the course of 2021, a sampling of Newton Presbyterian Manor’s customers and their families have participated in monthly telephone interviews that include open-ended questions, as well as the opportunity to rate Newton Presbyterian Manor in specific categories.

Every month, Newton Presbyterian Manor has gathered its real-time survey results to gain a better understanding of the residents’ needs and make improvements when necessary.

Independent living residents and their families rated Newton Presbyterian Manor in the top 15 percent in ease of the move-in process.

Assisted living residents and their families also rated the community highly in personal care and ease of the move-in process.

Skilled nursing residents and their families rated the community highly in ease of the admission process, cleanliness, dining services, quality of food and demonstrating dignity and respect.

A customer satisfaction measurement firm with 25 years of experience in

2022

post-acute healthcare, Pinnacle conducts over 150,000 phone surveys each year and works with more than 2,500 care providers in all 50 US states, Canada and Puerto Rico.

Newton Presbyterian Manor offers independent living, assisted living, Alzheimer’s and dementia care, long-term health care and shortterm rehabilitation. For more information about Newton Presbyterian Manor, contact Noelle Jost, marketing director, at 316283-5400 or ndickinson@pmma.org. u

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