The Rev’ Lucy Nguyen and the Pastoral Care Team

Sunday, 18 October 2026

The ASAH Pastoral Care Committee’s role is to help identify and respond to pastoral needs of our parish and wider community
“How do we show we care?”
Is our latest initiative
Having reacquainted ourselves through the Neighbourhood project and subsequent parties we’re now exploring how we stay connected and embody the holy art of caring one for another.
This morning’s gospel asks to look at a coin and to determine to whom does it belong. Our invitation is if people look to us to whom do they think belong? How do we share that we care as Christ has asked us to do?
Let us refresh and renew!
Here are 5 homegrown responses for showing how we might show we care within our families, church and wider community…
If you would like to find out more, share your own ideas and stories please be in touch with any of us from the Pastoral Care Committee, Deborah, Judy, Ruth, Carolyn and Lucy.

LINGER LONGER …
Ask
‘How has your week been?’
Wait
for the answer.
Listen
Show interest.
Take time …
It means so much,
and it shows that you care.
Invite
someone to morning tea,
accompany them.
Stay with them
to chat further.
THIS SHOWS WE CARE ♥️

WONDER WHERE …

Haven’t seen someone for a while?
Does that someone need
a phone call?
‘You have been in my thoughts’

Has someone come into your mind?
Does that someone need
a text?
’Thinking of you’
THIS SHOWS WE CARE ♥️

THE GIFT OF THANKS …

Acts of giving
deserve the gift of thanks
both big and small

‘Thank you for packing my supermarket bag …’
‘Thank you for sharing that thought with me…’
‘Thank you for your smile…’
‘Thank you for being in my life…’
THIS SHOWS WE CARE ♥️

CARING CONCERN…
We notice
‘Just checking in to see how you are’…
We listen
‘It’s okay to ask for help’…
We ask
‘Do you mind if I share this?’…
We share
Identify the best person to share with…
in most cases begin with clergy
or the wardens.
We pray
will think of you in my prayers’

THIS SHOWS WE CARE ♥️

BE THE INVITATIONAL VOICE OF OUR CHURCH…

Our challenge
to share with others

Who we are …

   		What we do …

           		 How we care …

                  		‘I go there because …’

THIS SHOWS WE CARE ♥️