Rich Jones was a neurosurgical nurse practitioner for 30 years. 12 years ago, he retired with his Speech Therapist wife, and they moved to Lubbock, TX, to launch the Hillside Christian Church campus. He served as the XP there for 9 years and his wife was Guest Services Director. Since retiring, they’ve moved to DFW to be near kids and grands 18 mos. ago. We started attending Compass Christian Church 18 mos. ago. We jumped in and started volunteering right away. He recently began a new staff position at Compass Christian Church as a volunteer Care Pastor. He wants to serve his church and its members to help train our staff in doing some of the “hard” things in ministry – funerals, making hard hospital calls like end-of-life, withdrawal of life support, etc. He developed an in-service training for the staff in Lubbock on the topic of making “hard” hospital visits. Through his busy neurosurgery practice, he dealt with a lot of death and dying and tragedy… almost on a weekly basis. He has a unique skill set and a unique perspective to help any pastor called upon to make that kind of challenging hospital visit.
I am writing this because I have an uncommon employment history that has provided me with a very unique skill-set and perspective when it comes to making difficult and challenging hospital, hospice or nursing facility visits.
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