A Day in the Life of a Chaplain

How can I minister to people in the hospital? How can I bring grace and hope to people in pain? What is a Christian view of death and dying? Of grief and loss? Will I see my baby in heaven? Does God promise always to heal in answer to our prayers? How do we respond in the face of suffering and seemingly unanswered prayer? How does God use life's most difficult experiences? These are just some of the questions that Chaplain Rick Rood addresses in this book. Weaving together stories from his twenty-three years as a hospital chaplain and insights from Scripture, Rick provides help to those who want to minister effectively to hospital patients and their loved ones. As you read this book, you will walk with him through the various units of a hospital, and encounter situations typically experienced in each one. Rick's prayer is that the Lord might use this book to help its readers become more compassionate and more effective agents of God's grace in the lives of people in pain.

Rick Rood is a graduate of Seattle Pacific University, and Dallas Theological Seminary. He has served as a pastor, seminary instructor, and beginning in 1996 as chaplain at an acute care medical center. He also served part-time as chaplain at a psychiatric hospital for twenty years. He is the author of Our Story . . . His Story: One Couple's Encounter with the Grace of God in the Crucible of Affliction (2014).