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	Deacon Family Ministry Plan Purpose A systematic plan to connect with every family in the church through personal ministry. Description How can a deacon help you? Of course, you are the only one who can answer that question. However, there are some specific ways your deacon wants to try to help. Visiting you. – The first visit will be to get acquainted with you and your family. However, your deacon will make other visits throughout the year when someone in your family is in the hospital or you have sorrow or sickness in the home. Sharing their faith with unsaved family members. – One of your deacon’s chief concerns is that every member of your family knows Christ as Savior. Giving support in times of crisis. – Your deacon also wants to provide congregational care to church members in addition to the response of staff in times of crisis. Sometimes your deacon can help you through the crisis by listening and giving support. If hospitalized, please notify your deacon so he can visit with you or your family member. Care of widows. – Firmly believing that the Scripture teaches us to remember the widows among us, each deacon will keep periodic check on our widows, attending to their needs and/or forwarding these on to the pastor as requested. Praying for you and with you. – Believing that you matter to God and believing in the power of prayer, your deacon will join with the pastor and other deacons in praying for you and each member of your family. We will accomplish this by praying for you and each of your family members at each Board meeting. Accountability When a man agrees and is set aside to serve as a deacon, he assumes the responsibility for faithfully discharging his duties, and will be held accountable for doing so. All deacons are asked to log their ministry activities and to submit these at each Board Meeting. Timely reporting of one’s ministry over the past quarter is crucial and will be measured. Care of the Deacons As the deacons care for you, we endeavor also to provide pastoral care for them and their families. This is accomplished by one of our elders specifically assigned as the Chaplain to the Deacons. His ministry mirrors in quality and kind the very ministry asked of each deacon as described above. In addition, the Chaplain to the Deacons offers a devotional and continuing education teaching segment at each Board Meeting as encouragement for the deacons in their ministry. Hebron’s Elders have selected Jim Bob McElroy to serve as Chaplain to the Deacons for the remainder of 2009 and all of 2010.