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NCFI Cares: Pray for Us!

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Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you completely, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. He who calls you is faithful; he will surely do it. Brothers and sisters, pray for us. (1 Thessalonians 5:23-25, ESV)

Happy New Year! As we welcome the year 2025, the NCFI Prayer and Care Committee wants to send a request—pray for NCFI! Below are some ideas on how to integrate the needs of NCFI into your prayer time. 

One way is to download and possibly print the Quarterly Prayer Guide. Here is the link

The prayer guide is a large table with the rows as weeks for each quarter. The 5 columns are areas and include the six regions, national fellowships, next-generation, and non-member country contacts. There are also requests specific for the NCFI organization: Directors, International Board, Leadership, Partner Organizations, and Institute of Christian Nursing. It may be overwhelming to see so many requests on a 4 page document. Here are a few suggestions on various ways to use the guide to pray for NCFI.

–Choose one day of the week dedicated to NCFI. Then, during your morning or evening prayer time take a few minutes to pray across the row.

–Add NCFI to a specific prayer time on a daily basis. For example, right before bedtime, pray for one square for that week.

–During a monthly national or group fellowship meeting, divide up the group prayer requests and spend a few minutes praying for nurses around the globe. You would take note of the months on the far left column.

–If your national/local fellowship has a texting/messaging group, assign someone to place the requests in the group messaging. This can be done daily, weekly, monthly, or bi-monthly.

These are just a few suggestions to include NCFI prayer requests into your regular prayer time.

NCFI appreciate your prayers to fulfill our mission in encouraging Christian nurses live out their faith in nurses. 

Christian Nursing 101: A Global Heart for Nursing

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LargeRollover.00005217-201807000-00000.CVIn this article I share ways nurses can share their global heart in nursing.

I will share with you my most recent prayer petitions for my global colleagues and patients:

The miraculous rescue of the soccer team and coach trapped inside a cave for 2 weeks in Thailand. There were medical teams, including nurses, at the cave site providing health care services to the divers during the planning stages of the rescue. Then, of course, once the boys and their coach were out of the cave, they provided EMS care en route to the hospital and at t hospital.

All 12 boys and soccer coach rescued

Besides the world-wide prayers that went out for the boys, the coach, and the rescue teams. This was also an opportunity to pray for our colleagues diligently working to save lives and restore health.

Share how you extend your nursing heart to our global colleagues.

 

 

 

Celebrate 100th NCFI CARES Devotion

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NCFI Cares (Caring Across Regions with Encouraging Scripture)

Here are the links mentioned in the video:

CARES: Reflections for Nurses found at NCFI’s Institute of Christian Nursing website.

Lighting the Way: A handbook for Christian Nurses and Midwives

Christian Nursing 101 article 

Email sign-up ncfi.cares@gmail.com

 

Check out the category  “NCFI Cares” for the 99 other devotions!

Amazing!

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My first NCFI conference was truly an amazing experience. I don’t even know where to begin…except to begin and share with you some of my experiences…

I flew 10 hours to Santiago and am constantly amazed at these red-eye flights that feed you! Am I the only one who feels weird boarding a plan at midnight, getting comfortable to watch movies and catch some Z’s only to have them serve dinner? And not just a snack, but a full course meal with an entree and desert.

I really scored with my seat this time, for I chose the first row, thus I had lots of leg room. I also like to sit on the aisle for I can get up and do laps around the plane. I would say it is the med/surg nurse in me that cannot sit that long, but then again my father has always been pretty active.  These red-eye flights are a great way for me to catch up on movies and learn the art of sleeping sitting up.

We arrive in Santiago at 10:00 am and the weather is warm and dry, spring time for them. Later on I find out, that this dry, warm weather is their typical pattern. For anyone who has been in Southern California, this is exactly what Santiago reminded me of, with their Mediterranean climate and morning fog rolling in from the coast.

After immigration and customs, I made my way to the baggage terminal and found a sign saying “Christian Nurses Conference” which was a wonderful sight. Waiting for the bus was a large group of nurses from all over the world, Australia, Norway, Canada, USA, and Philippines. While I was waiting, I recognized a nurse from Manila, she had been to the Spiritual Care class that Tove, Swee Eng and myself had taught. Her name was Denia and we become buddies!

They were having us wait until we got to 20 people before the call went out for the bus. There was quite a bit of confusion, but with the help of a van we all made it to the conference center.

When we arrived at the conference center it was lunch time, so we went into the dining hall and upon our entry, a huge round of applause and excitement burst forth. Come to find out, this was how they welcomed all the bus loads of nurses arriving at the conference. This constant theme of brotherly and sister love enveloped the entire time. It is truly amazing to immediately enjoy and love complete strangers from around the world–this connection was our hearts in Christ molded and shaped for His work with patients–Amazing!