Caring
We hold in our hearts all who are celebrating joys and milestones and those navigating illness or loss of loved ones.
To share your prayer requests, joys, sorrows, or milestones whether confidentially, in Fellowship Family e-news, or as part of Sunday service, send an email to . We will follow up with you. We also have a prayer group.
If you would like your joy or concern shared in worship on Sunday, you can add it to the Joys and Concerns book located outside the sanctuary.
Holding Joys and Concerns for Worship
Are you celebrating or experiencing challenge and would like to be held in prayer and meditation in our Sunday service? ERUUF now has a book outside the sanctuary for you to enter brief joys and concerns you would like held publicly by the worship team during our worship service. You can also send joys and concerns to the email by Saturday evening.
Care Ministry Table
During Coffee Hour after most Sunday services, you are invited to visit with ERUUF Pastoral Care Associates. You can send a card to someone with a joy, sorrow or milestone, and you can see the beautiful items created by Clickers. This is also a time when you can speak with one of the Associates or the Pastoral Care Minister about your caring concerns.
Care Calendars
When an ERUUF member with a serious health issue needs on-going support, a calendar is created to coordinate people who are willing to help in specific ways. This team of volunteers will work closely with the member and family to help meet their needs.
- Contact Person: Joyce Boucheron
- Role: Care Team
- Email:
- Staff Partner: Rev. Jim Lewis, Minister of Lifespan Faith Development & Pastoral Care
Growing Thru Grief Group
If you are grieving the death of a loved one and would like to meet with others who are also grieving, join Growing Thru Grief. This ERUUF-sponsored grief group meets every Tuesday at 4:00pm at St. Paul's Lutheran Church.
Prayer Group
Group members add prayers to their personal prayer practice for members who request it (held in confidence). Persons requesting prayers may send their request to or fill in a gold "We Hold You in our Hearts" form found in the sanctuary pew racks.
- Contact Person: Joyce Boucheron
- Role: Coordinator
- Email:
- Staff Partner: Rev. Jim Lewis, Minister of Lifespan Faith Development & Pastoral Care
Depression Peer Support Group
The depression peer support group is for people who have a long-term mood disorder, such as depression, or bipolar disorder. These conditions carry a stigma and can be very isolating, as other people may not “get it”. The group offers members understanding, hope, humor, practical advice, and information, in a caring, warm and sensitive environment.
Read more: Depression Peer Support Group
- Email:
- Staff Partner: Rev. Jim Lewis, Minister of Lifespan Faith Development & Pastoral Care
Clicking for a Cause
This needlecraft ministry brings comfort to members and friends of ERUUF, as well as to local organizations, through hand-knitted or crocheted items (block blankets, care shawls, hats, and baby items.) Clicking also encourages knitting and crocheting as spiritual practices.
