Community Health Ministry Partners of West Michigan

05/01/2025

We are actively working to establish a website! We also have a newsletter that goes out with updates and CE offerings. Please feel free to reach out to FCN@calvin.edu for the newsletter! The next Foundations course at Calvin will be offered August 22-23, September 26-27, and October 24-25.

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03/20/2021

If you are a faith community or parish nurse, please consider joining our FCN Connect Michigan group on FB. Becoming a member of this group, will allow you to find and share resources and network with other local and regional faith community nurses!

05/18/2020

This is a well written article which explains some of the risks of how COVID-19 is believed to have spread and how to mitigate them. It proves the importance of masks - especially in enclosed public spaces, but also shows that being outdoors is relatively low-risk.

It seems many people are breathing some relief, and I’m not sure why. An epidemic curve has a relatively predictable upslope and once the peak is reached, the back slope is also predictable. Assuming we have just crested in deaths at 70k, that would mean that if we stay locked down, we lose anothe...

03/20/2020

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/community/organizations/index.html

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) - Resources for Community- and Faith-Based Leaders

03/20/2020

Citing shortages, Deaconess Health System asked the public to sew face masks for staff fighting coronavirus.

01/29/2020

Do any of you have a DME lending closet at your church? I have a couple of wheelchairs, walker, stationary commode, commode on wheels, foot spa and other things. Pictures in comments. Please let me know if you could use any of these items

07/10/2018

Do you have clients that would benefit from learning more about healthy eating and cooking? If so, please share this information about free classes

07/10/2018

Are you interested in learning more about Alzheimer's? Consider attending this free educational webinar offering

07/01/2018

06/29/2018

http://chreader.org/
Look at this resource. I’m wondering how I didn’t know about it before now!

10/14/2017

This is a wonderful testimony from someone who's survived domestic violence.

Abby Vesga – Healing from Domestic Violence He is dead. When? How? Why did it take so long? As the questions arose, intellectually, I was flooded with emotions. Reality set in, and for the first time in 17 years, I knew that I was not only safe at last, but free. This man took me down a path that ca...