2022/03/18

목포사랑의교회 백동조 목사, 부교역자들 '가르마' 불량하다며 강단 불러내 공개 망신 < 교회 < 기사본문 - 뉴스앤조이

백 목사가 "B 목사님도 가르마가 별로 안 좋다. 이거 수정해야 한다. 2 대 8로 하든지 3 대 7로 하든지"라고 말하자 교인들이 또 웃었다. 그러자 백 목사는 웃는 교인들에게 "아니에요"라면서 자신은 진지하다고 했다.

"헤어샵에 가서 9시 뉴스 앵커들의 헤어스타일로 만들어 달라고 해라. 다음 주일 낮에는 딱 섰을 때 '아 세련됐다, 멋지다' 이런 말이 나올 수 있도록 그렇게 하라. 가운데 가르마가 공인으로서는 적합하지 않다. 3대 7이나 2대 8로 딱 해서 아주 깔끔하게. 예배 집례하는 사회를 보는 목사님들은 모든 면에서 아주 정갈해야 한다. '이 교회 수준 있다' (소리가 나와야 한다) 설교 내용도 수준 있어야 되고 사회 보는 모든 목사님들의 매너도 굉장히 수준급이어야 한다."

처음에는 가볍게 농담하는 줄 알고 웃던 A·B 목사와 교인들도, 백 목사가 정색하며 말하자 당황해했다. A·B 목사는 얼굴에서 웃음기가 싹 빠진 채로 두 손을 가지런히 앞에 모으고 "죄송합니다", "시정하겠습니다"라고 크게 대답했다.

백동조 목사는 교인들에게 "기분이 나쁘냐"고 묻더니, 이 목사들의 단어 선택에도 문제가 있다고 말했다. 기도할 때 '흠향'이라는 단어를 쓴 게 잘못됐다는 것이다. 백 목사는 "지난주 B 목사가 기도하면서 '흠향해 달라'고 기도하길래 그 단어는 안 쓰는 게 좋을 것이라고 했다. 기독교에서 흠향이라는 단어는 적합하지 않은 단어다. 그냥 '우리의 찬양을 받아주시옵소서'나 '기도를 받아주시옵소서'(라고 하면 되는데) 마치 향을 피우는 듯한 뉘앙스는 안 좋다. 그래서 그 단어를 쓰지 말라고 했는데 혼자만 딱 먹어(무시해) 버렸다. 오늘 여기(A 목사)가 또 썼잖아. 내가 흠향이라는 단어는 안 쓰는 게 좋겠다 그러면, 목사님은 즉각 전달을 해야 한다"고 말했다.

백 목사는 "내가 설교 전에 꼭 당신 나오라고 해서 이렇게 짜증스러운 광고 좀 안 하게 좀 (하라)"고 말했다. 긴장한 기색이 역력한 부교역자들은 "알겠습니다", "죄송합니다"를 크게 외친 후 강대상에서 내려갔다.

그런데 백 목사가 문제 삼은 '흠향歆饗'이라는 단어는 정작 제사 때 쓰는 향과는 거리가 멀다. 흠향의 사전적 의미는 "신명神明이 제물을 받아서 먹음"으로 제사와 관련된 어휘이지만, 향기 향香이 아니라 '향연' 또는 '향응'에 쓰는 '잔치할 향饗'을 쓴다.

신구약을 통틀어 개역개정 성서에서 이 단어가 유일하게 등장하는 레위기 26장 31절을 보면 "내가 너희의 성읍을 황폐하게 하고 너희의 성소들을 황량하게 할 것이요 너희의 향기로운 냄새를 내가 흠향하지 아니하고"로 돼 있어 '향기 향' 자로 오인할 소지가 있지만, 다른 번역본에는 흠향이 "기쁘게 받지 않을 것이다"(새번역), "제사를 받지 않을 것이다"(현대인의성경) 등으로 표현돼 있다. 영어 성서 NIV 역시 "I will take no delight in the pleasing"으로 되어 있어, 이 단어가 '기쁘게 받다'라는 의미로 쓰인 것임을 알 수 있다.

＜뉴스앤조이＞는 백동조 목사 입장을 듣기 위해 14일 전화를 걸었지만, 그는 받지 않았다. 문자메시지로 부교역자의 머리 스타일을 교인들 앞에서 공개적으로 질책한 게 부적절하다고 생각하지 않느냐고 물었지만, 답은 돌아오지 않았다.

목포사랑의교회는 출석 교인 2000명이 넘는, 목포 지역에서 제일 큰 교회다. 사랑의교회 옥한흠 목사에게 영향을 받아 1985년 목포에 사랑의교회를 개척한 백동조 목사는 총신대에서 설교학 박사 학위를 취득하고 설교학을 가르치는 등 대한예수교장로회 합동(배광식 총회장)에서 설교학 전문가로 알려져 있다.

[출처: 뉴스앤조이] 목포사랑의교회 백동조 목사, 부교역자들 '가르마' 불량하다며 강단 불러내 공개 망신

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[단어공부] 흠향하다 (레위기 26장 31절)
받을 흠 歆, 잔치할 향 饗
흠향은 "기쁘게 (제사를) 받다"(새번역), "제사를 받다"(현대인의성경)의 뜻. 영어로는 "take in the pleasing"(NIV)으로 번역. 

따라서 향기로운 향을 흠향함 = 제사의 향기로운 향을 기쁘게 받음.
흠향을 향기를 받음으로 해석하면 안 된다.

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역시 목사는 한자 공부를 해야 돼!
역시 레위기가 중요해!
역시 부목사는 담임 목사를 잘 만나야 해.
역시 담임목사님의 말은 절반의 진실: 담임목사나 교인들이 모르는 어려운 단어 사용하지 말고 그냥 '우리의 찬양을 받아주시옵소서'나 '기도를 받아주시옵소서'하면 됨.
역시 '공인'인 부목사 가르마는 지역의 투표 지지율을 따라가야 해! 서울과 경기에서는 5:5로. 전라도는 좌8: 우2, 경상도는 좌3: 우7.
하나님은 우리의 머리카락을 세시나 담임목사는 부목사의 가르마 비율을 보고 계심.
앞으로는 부목사 가르마만 보면 어디서 목회하는지 알 수 있겠음. ㅎ

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Helping Hand partners with NARI - Australian Ageing Agenda

Helping Hand partners with NARI - Australian Ageing Agenda

by Australian Ageing Agenda January 29, 2020POSTED INDEMENTIA EXPANSIONS, MERGERS, ACQUISITIONS NOTICEBOARD RESEARCH SOCIAL & WELLBEING
Helping Hand partners with NARI

Professor Briony Dow and Chris Stewart

South Australian aged care provider Helping Hand Aged Care has partnered with the National Ageing Research Institute to help drive improvements in aged care services.

Helping Hand has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with NARI to undertake ongoing aged care research and immedetiately joined two NARI underway.

They include Befriendas, which involves training volunteers who visit aged care residents weekly in a bid to help reduce symptoms of depression and anxiety and decrease loneliness and social isolation.

Megan Corlis

Helping Hand executive manager of research and development Megan Corlis said the partnership would be invaluable in shaping Helping Hand’s service delivery.

“We aim to use the NARI toolkit to attract more volunteers to our organisation and increase social connectedness within our care homes,” Ms Corlis said.

A great sense of community often develops when someone moves into an aged care home, but like all relationships and experiences it can take time, she said.

“These research projects are designed to have a positive impact on supporting the development of that community when new residents move in.

“The goal is that we will embed research outcomes into our everyday practices,” Ms Corlis said.

Helping Hand has also joined the Pitch program, which involves developing and evaluating a co-designed and dementia-specific program for home care that aims to support people to stay at home longer by increasing staff understanding.

NARI director Professor Briony Dow said having partners such as Helping Hand enabled the institute to work closely with older people and their carers and understand what is important to them and what works.

“The benefit of working with an aged care organisation is that where we find something that is going to help, we can actually roll that out into care homes and services and be confident that it will make a positive difference,” Professor Dow said.

“Staff and volunteers will participate in training so the research will endure beyond the projects. It will have a lasting impact on residents and home care clients.”

The partnership comes in between the royal commission’s interim’s report released last October and its final report due in November this year.

Helping Hand CEO Chris Stewart said the organisation was committed to transparency and to responding to issues that have emerged from the royal commission, said

“We have already implemented a range of policy and system changes and this research partnership will further strengthen our capacity to respond to change and take a leading role in a transforming sector,” Mr Stewart said.

Results from the projects are expected to be available at the end of the year.

Food for the Soul: A Year of Spiritual Deepening - Silver Wattle Quaker Centre

Food for the Soul: A Year of Spiritual Deepening

Friday, July 22, 2022 3:30 PM
Thursday, July 28, 2022 12:30 PM

Silver Wattle Quaker Centre1063 Lake RoadBungendoreAustralia (map)

Food for the Soul: A Year of Spiritual Deepening

Led by Sheila Keane, Matt Lamont and David Johnson

Residential Retreat 22-28 July 2022, online course to follow through the year.

Course objectives:

• To respond to a deep spiritual hunger for more

• To transform/ deepen your spiritual life

• To establish in you an ongoing rhythm of spiritual practice

• To enable you to identify and live into your own personal calling/ ministry

This course is offered in a Quaker context but non-Quakers are welcome and will benefit from the focus on contemplation and action.

Big picture of the program

• Starts with a one-week residential retreat, then four 7-10 week online segments (total 35 weeks) over the year.

▪ Each week there will be assigned recordings/ readings (20-35 pages), about 3-6 hours pw. Some reading materials will be supplied, others to be purchased.

▪ Weekly focussing queries for reflection

▪ Participants will be supported to create ways to keep up (e.g. learning buddies, weekly zooms, online chat discussion, etc)

▪ Each of the four segments has 3-4 live Zoom sessions (90 minutes) with presentations, opportunities to process material, accountability, and personal sharing; a total of 15 Zoom sessions for the year.

▪ Weeks with Zoom sessions will be held on a Sunday afternoon

• Opportunity is offered for individual spiritual direction sessions during the year

• Each participant is encouraged to have their own “mentor” (elder/ anchor group) to accompany them through the course

• Four ‘assignments’

▪ Segment 1 e-retreat on Silence

▪ Segment 2 reflection paper on Membership & Community

▪ Segment 3 e-retreat on Celebration & Sabbath

▪ Segment 4 reflection paper on Living into Your Own Ministry

• Closing session

Expressions of Interest

As part of the registration process, we ask you to write a brief description of your motivations for participating in the course, so we can ensure it is a good fit. This is also a time to have your questions addressed before committing to the course.

A word about vocabulary

This course uses traditional words like prayer, God, covenant community, gospel order. These words are used because they are the vocabulary we have learned, but other vocabulary may be needed to remove the poison from traditional language. When we say ‘prayer’, for example, consider what happens when you are connected with nature, or when in a gathered meeting for worship. The traditional language is loosely held and intended as a poetic expression of the ineffable. Please know that these words are spoken gently and translation will be encouraged.

Residential Retreat

The course opens with a 6 day residential retreat at Silver Wattle where we will practice the daily rhythm of learning in community. As well as supporting learning experiences, the retreat will provide inspiration and refreshment, beginning the process of setting time aside for the development of our spiritual lives.

Online portion of the course

The online component of this course comprises 35 weekly topics set out in 4 segments over the year.

I. The Inward Life (9 weeks / 4 Zoom sessions)

The inward life is the platform on which our Quaker practice is built. Through it we develop our conscience, our equanimity, our passion. This segment of the course explores the development of the inward life through prayer and contemplation. As well as the experience of early Friends, we borrow from the desert tradition and from monastic wisdom on silence, contemplation, and its consequences in community and the way we approach life. The section concludes with a one-day silent e-Retreat.

II. Spiritual Community (7 weeks / 3 Zoom sessions)

This second segment of the course situates the inward life in the context of our faith community. There are many ways the individual and corporate aspects of Quaker life can enhance one another. The segment is set in the unique Australian context, with small meetings, isolated Friends, and new opportunities with Zoom. The segment concludes with a reflection paper (3-5 pages) on membership and community.

III. Becoming Real (9 weeks / 4 Zoom sessions)

One consequence of spiritual deepening is an increase in authenticity and self-awareness. This segment of the course focuses on the journey of contemplative development. It can be hard work, becoming real, and we also need to rest and celebrate our growth. The segment concludes with a half-day e-Retreat on Sabbath and celebration.

IV. Lives that Speak (10 weeks / 4 Zoom sessions)

As William Penn (1682) said, “True godliness doesn’t turn men out of the world…but enables them to live better in it… and excites their endeavours to mend it.” This final segment of the course focuses on our call to outward action, arising from the contemplative work from earlier in the year. The segment concludes with a reflection paper (3-5 pages) on your own calling at this moment in time, and invites you to take next steps to live into that call.

Closing session

The course concludes with a final Zoom session after the final papers have been received. If there is interest, we may also hold a short residential retreat to consolidate our deepening process and celebrate the year.

About the course leaders

Sheila Keane came to Friends in 1982,

completed a 2-year Quaker formation program On Being a Spiritual Nurturer,

(School of the Spirit, Philadelphia YM) in 1996, and migrated to Australia in 1999 where she established the Quaker Basics distance learning course and led several regional meeting retreats. Sheila has been offering courses at Silver Wattle since 2009, including Sink Down to the Seed, Nurturing Elders, Clerking, Zoom Play, and Quaker Basics Online. She is an experienced online educator and is active in the life of Silver Wattle, serving as a member of the Board and the Programs & Learning Committee.

Matt Lamont grew up in Perth (Wadjuk Noongar Country) and was immersed in the bush of southwest Australia by his plant ecologist father. He was also introduced to the practice of Christian meditation at an early age by his mother. Matthew is an experienced social worker, spiritual director and artist. He studied Christian Spirituality with the Broken Bay Institute and has a long-standing interest in contemplative practice and monastic traditions. Matthew moved with his wife Sophia (and now three children) to Newcastle in 2003. He became a member of Friends in 2005 and enjoys bushwalking, weight training and following the trials and tribulations of the Fremantle Dockers.

David Johnson is a convinced Quaker of Conservative nature who is well versed in early Christian and early Quaker writings, finding in both the contemplative spiritualities that affirm the Inward Light within every one of us, and within the whole of creation. David has led retreats widely in Australia and overseas. His publications include: Peace is a Struggle (Backhouse Lecture 2005); A Quaker Prayer Life (2013); and the Workings of the Spirit of God Within (2019). He also has a short video on prayer at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZxGL2GQgZ0

Breaking the loneliness cycle in aged care - Australian Ageing Agenda

by February 14, 2018

POSTED INEXECUTIVESOCIAL & WELLBEING

Breaking the loneliness cycle in aged care

Some 40% of aged care residents receive no visitors, says minister

Aged care facilities should be well placed to tackle social isolation yet research shows seniors who live in residential care report feeling lonelier than those in the community, write Peter Birkett, Andrea Dunlop and David Edvardsson.

It’s inevitable that as we age there will be a social cost. Factors such as retirement from meaningful employment, health limitations, the loss of spousal companionship and diminished friendship networks arising from death and disability mean that opportunities for social engagement decline.

Social connectedness is well regarded as a key determinant of health.

Whilst recent aged care reforms place increased importance on living longer at home to maintain health and independence, the unintended consequence may be increased social isolation and loneliness.

Residential aged care facilities should be well placed to tackle issues of loneliness and isolation due to communal living, availability of caregivers to support health needs, unrestricted timeframes for visitors and leisure, recreation and lifestyle programs.

However, research in 2012 found that older people in residential care report feeling more lonely than those living in the community.

Minister for Aged Care Ken Wyatt last year quoted figures of up to 40 per cent of people living in residential aged care do not receive any visitors at all.

The solution to tackling loneliness for those living in residential facilities must not rely upon maintaining diminishing family connections once present in former lives.

Facilities and aged care providers must also accept some responsibility to tackle this complex issue. It must be said, however, that not all people living in residential care are lonely. Alone perhaps, but not lonely necessarily.

Breaking the cycle

Delivering care that is person centred has been both an expectation, and a flagship of, many aged care providers. But are we really delivering care that meets the physical health as well as the social, emotional and psychological needs of the residents we care for?

Have you been to an aged care facility where residents are congregated in comfortable lounge chairs in communal spaces for long periods of the day? Have we ever asked them if that makes them happy? Have we ever asked them what they would prefer to be doing or if they are lonely? Or are we too afraid of the answers that they might give?

Statistics from the end Loneliness Campaign in the UK reveal that 90 per cent of us find it difficult to tell others that we are lonely. It follows then that aged care residents may also find this hard to admit.

So how do we find out? Very simply we must observe, ask, listen, connect and explore ideas and possibilities to facilitate important social connections that may break, even temporarily, the loneliness cycle.

Then we must share what we learn. The daily handover should not be limited to addressing issues of health status it should also be used to share information that holds meaning to that resident; something about their life history, interests, values and their view of the world.

It might be equally valuable to share that you noticed them tapping their foot along to a certain song or that they laughed when a joke was made or that their eyes lit up when they shared a snippet of their life.

Staff commonly report that making a difference to others is what drives them to work in residential aged care, yet the skills of enquiry and observation about social factors are not necessarily intuitive. The workforce requires education about how to do this, what to ask, how to ask, when to ask and importantly how to share the information with their colleagues.

New international initiative

An international study currently underway in Norway, Sweden and Australia may reveal some of the answers. Using a Scandinavian developed Thriving in Older Persons Assessment Scale, the study surveyed residents, families and staff in nursing homes about perceptions of person centred care and then provided a 12-month education program to care staff within three domains of

giving a little extra

developing a caring environment, and

assessing highly prioritised psychosocial needs.

Using alternative facilities in each country as control sites, the staff, residents and families will be resurveyed after the education program to see if it has made a difference.

Disney and Pixar has made a fortune out of movies like Shrek and Beauty and the Beast highlighting issues of loneliness and the benefits of acceptance and social inclusion. They do so because these are issues that resonate.

Loneliness will affect us all, sooner or later, so let’s work to make residential aged care a place where older people do not simply survive but also where they thrive.

Follow AAA online for updates on the study’s outcomes. Don’t miss the forthcoming March-April issue of AAA magazine for more on tackling loneliness in residential aged care.

Peter Birkett is CEO and Andrea Dunlop is manager of workforce and service development at Hesse Rural Health Service. Professor David Edvardsson is director of Austin Health Clinical School of Nursing at La Trobe University.

Workshop addressing loneliness in aged care oversubscribed - Australian Ageing Agenda

Workshop addressing loneliness in aged care oversubscribed - Australian Ageing Agenda

Workshop addressing loneliness in aged care oversubscribed

An online interactive and evidence-based workshop is aiming to help aged care workers develop and implement strategies to reduce the increasing loneliness and isolation that many aged care residents are experiencing.

Next Tuesday’s workshop, which is hosted by the National Ageing Research Institute, will also explore the psychology behind loneliness, what causes it and the common issues aged care recipients are experiencing.

“Loneliness and isolation have increased over the last two years as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic,” NARI senior principal research fellow and workshop facilitator Professor Colleen Doyle told Australian Ageing Agenda.

Professor Colleen Doyle

“A survey we collaborated on found that during the pandemic nearly half of residents experienced loneliness and a third experienced anxiety in response to COVID-19,” Professor Doyle said.

“Previous research has indicated that many residents have had no visitors even before the pandemic, and the pandemic restrictions on visitors has extended that social isolation to all the residents for long periods during lockdowns.”

The interest in the workshop also indicates the prevalence of the issues, she said. “The workshop is currently oversubscribed with a waiting list so the topic must be on people’s minds.”

Professor Doyle, an honorary professor at Swinburne University and Deakin University, and Marcia Fearn, a NARI research officer who has a background in psychology and social science, will lead the event.

Marcia Fearn

Ms Fearn is also the project coordinator for the BEFRIENDAS program, which involves training volunteers who visit aged care residents weekly to help reduce symptoms of depression and anxiety and decrease loneliness and social isolation.

“Our befriending research has enrolled over 200 people living in residential aged care in the last two years, and we have found that among that group of people with depression symptoms, the addition of a new person making contact in whatever way is allowed by visiting restrictions has been welcomed and participants have been very happy with the contacts made,” Professor Doyle said.
Effective strategies

The workshop will involve a discussion of the strategies participants have found effective. It will also explore the evidence behind several approaches, such as social prescribing interventions like physical activity with friends, in person or online groups such as peer support and reading groups, and befriending.

“We outline in the workshop the need for strategies to be individualised and co-designed with the individual so not all strategies work for everyone,” Professor Doyle said.

The workshop addresses the first and fourth aged care standards – consumer dignity and choice and services and supports for daily living.

Strategies for tackling loneliness in aged care will be delivered over Zoom on Tuesday 22 February from 9:30am to 12:00pm.

Due to the high demand, NARI is planning a follow up workshop but has not set a date yet.

Training helps volunteers set boundaries - Australian Ageing Agenda

by Sandy Cheu August 28, 2019

CLINICAL EXECUTIVE RESEARCH SOCIAL & WELLBEING

Training helps volunteers set boundaries

Volunteers benefit from training sessions prior to getting to know residents, the early findings of a befriending study show.

The National Ageing Research Institute is a quarter of the way into a four-year research project looking at the impact that volunteer-led befriending has on the mental health of aged care residents (read more here).

To date, 38 volunteers aged 20 to 95 have attended a training session before befriending 38 residents at six Victorian residential aged care facilities.

NARI senior principal research fellow and project lead researcher Professor Colleen Doyle said early findings show that vounteers value the training before commencing their interactions with residents.

“The volunteers do think training is essential to help with the support of their befriending even though it’s a very simple idea of going to visit someone that is in residential aged care to talk with them about every day things,” Professor Doyle told Australian Ageing Agenda.

Professor Doyle will present early findings of the study at the Australian Association of Gerontology conference in Sydney in November, where she will also talk about what helps volunteers support aged care residents.

Professor Doyle said volunteers found the training sessions helpful because it dealt with setting boundaries about interactions with residents including respect, confidentiality and not providing or receiving financial support or gifts.

“We also give them some information

about communication skills with someone who may be having health issues,
how to handle a conversation with someone who is a stranger when they start out,
what sort of topics are good to talk about and the ones to avoid,”

Professor Doyle said.

The training has also provided volunteers with information on conversing with residents and what to expect when visiting an aged care facility, she said.

“Some of our volunteers have never been to a nursing home before… so we try to prepare them for what they are going to see and what it’s going to feel like to walk into someone’s communal living space,” Professor Doyle said.

The volunteers also appreciate receiving ongoing support over the phone or email, she said.

Professor Doyle said a few volunteers have left the study and a few residents have passed away but no residents have opted out.

The study will continue to recruit volunteers and residents on an ongoing basis and conduct field work for another two years.

Professor Doyle said it was too early to investigate whether volunteer-led befriending reduced loneliness and depression among the residents.

The study is expected to report by mid-2022.

NARI’s project, which received a $652,000 grant, is among seven studies to share in $5 million in a program jointly funded by beyondblue and the National Health and Medical Research Council to the improve mental health of older Australians in (read more here).

The Australian Association of Gerontology conference will take place at the International Convention Centre Sydney on 5 – 8 November. Find out more here.

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