Please Join Us!
Date:
Tuesday, May 19, 2015
7:30am -12:00 pm
Location:
Peter Becker Community
Maplewood Estates
Arbor Conference Center (2nd Floor)
815 Maplewood Drive
Harleysville, PA 19438
Who May Attend?
Both clergy and lay ministers
from throughout our region are
invited to join us.
What Can I Expect?
• Enjoy a delicious breakfast
• Engage in a thought-provoking
presentation
• Dialogue and fellowship with clergy and lay ministers
• Meet the Kaufmans and more...
Is There a Cost?
The event is FREE, but reservations
are required due to limited seating.
Please RSVP on or before Tuesday
May 12. Call 215-703-4011 or
e-mail Merlin Hedrick:
[email protected]
Finishing Well: Encouraging and Guiding Essential Conversations
in Families with Aging Parents
SEMINAR
SCHEDULE
7:30am – registration &
breakfast
8:00am – welcome &
first session
9:15am – break
9:30am – second session
10:30am – break
10:45am – third session
11:45am – wrap up
11:55am – dismissal
12:00pm – book signing
Breakfast Menu:
Quiche, fresh fruit
salad, granola, yogurt,
Danish, bagels and
cream cheese, coffee,
tea and juice.
About Our Presenters
Gerald and Marlene Kaufman live in Brownstown,
Pennsylvania. They were marriage and individual
counselors at Kaufman Counseling Associates
from 1980-2008. Both completed Masters in Social
Work degrees, from Indiana University and Temple
University respectively and earlier graduated from
Goshen College, Goshen IN. They have led seminars
and workshops throughout the country and in
Canada. Together they have written; Necessary Conversations (2013),
Monday Marriage (2002), Freedom Fences (1999). Our seminar will
draw largely from the Kaufman’s latest book, Necessary Conversations.
Copies will be available for purchase.
About the Seminar
Peter Becker Community is committed to working
with other organizations and faith communities
to help older adults have the best life possible.
The purpose of our annual Spirit Care Seminar is
to encourage and strengthen those who minister
to older adults and their families and to thank
the many chaplains, pastors and lay people who
partner with us in offering spiritual care to
the older adults in our community.
About Peter Becker Community
Peter Becker Community is a continuing
care retirement community, which empowers
older adults to stay active and independent,
along with a full continuum of long-term
care that ensures their best possible future.
As a not-for-profit community, we focus
exclusively on the well-being of our residents.
Founded in 1971, our community is an
outgrowth of the ministry and values of the
Church of the Brethren.
U
nprecedented numbers
of older adults are living
longer and facing many
financial, medical and
housing choices that will significantly
impact their final years. Many families
are at a loss to know how to discuss
and process these new realities of
aging. Spiritual care givers are in a
unique position to encourage and
guide families in these difficult but
life-giving conversations. This seminar
will lay the foundation for this
important work.
Seminar Objectives
To help each participant:
• Understand what prevents us
from entering into these conversations and the cost of avoiding them.
• Identify the ways spiritual care givers can encourage families to begin the conversation.
• Learn to recognize needs and opportunities to start conversations among those whom they serve.
AREA MAP & DIRECTIONS
2015
S E M I N A R
Finishing Well:
Encouraging and Guiding the
Essential Conversations in
Families with Aging Parents
From Lehigh Valley and North - Go south on the
Northeast Extension of the PA Turnpike (I-476) to Exit
31 (Lansdale). Follow directions for From Philadelphia
and South from Exit 31.
From Philadelphia and South - Go north on the
Northeast Extension of the PA Turnpike (I-476) to Exit
31 (Lansdale).
Then make right off exit ramp onto PA Route 63
(Sumneytown Pike). Proceed 3.7 miles to PA Route
113 (Harleysville Pike) and turn right. Proceed north
1.3 miles to traffic light at Schoolhouse Road. Turn
right and proceed 0.5 miles to Maplewood Drive.
Turn right into Peter Becker Community, and the
Maplewood Estates building will be on the right.
• Practice possible approaches to create a climate that encourages these conversations.
3.5 Continuing Education Credits available upon request.
Tuesday, May 19
7:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Peter Becker Community
starting a conversation through
the use of case studies.
• Explore how faith communities can Spirit Care
Arbor Conference Center
at Maplewood Estates
A CONTINUING CARE RETIREMENT COMMUNITY
800 Maple Avenue • Harleysville, PA 19438
Phone: 215-256-9501 • Fax: 215-256-9768
www.PeterBeckerCommunity.com