A new Christians in Care (CIC) network has been launched to ‘connect Christians working across the care sector in the UK’.
The network was launched by elderly-care charity, Pilgrims’ Friend Society, and their website details how the network enables Christians working in the care sector to join WhatsApp groups and meet virtually to chat, share, and pray together, seeking to ‘encourage and inspire one another to live and speak for Jesus’.
The network currently has a WhatsApp group for frontline care staff and another for home-care leaders and trustees, where encouraging Bible verses, prayer needs and testimonies are shared, and there are plans for virtual meetings to take place in future.
Lucy Honeysett (see photo), lead coordinator of CIC, said that caring for vulnerable people is a ‘precious and important work’, and that the network exists to support Christians who work in the care sector, where it can be difficult at times, as ‘people who care deeply can also end up hurting deeply.’ She said they want care workers to know that they are ‘precious in God’s sight’, and that what they do is ‘valued and appreciated’.
Christian care workers are encouraged to get in touch, via the Pilgrims’ Friend Society website, if they would like to be involved.
