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WE long to Walk with you on your dementia Journey
Magnifying faith on this dementia journey through in-person and virtual means. As a Family, Parish, or Care Community, we offer a range of services seeking to accompany you, equipping you with the tools you need to live the dignity of the faith.
We, The Hem of Christ are dedicated to serving everyone living with dementia by meeting each person where they are at in their life’s journey with the disease. The work we do is not complex, instead rooted simply in willing the good of the other.
Our work’s foundation is based on personal experience and input from those living with dementia and care partners. Rooted in the Teachings of the Church, we remain true to those teachings while maintaining a sense of fluidity in how we answer the Call to serve those living with Dementia.
We can be found in parishes, active in our diocese, within our Catholic schools, and within faith organizations. It is here where we provide education, retreats, workshops, and cultivate community gatherings and connections.
Moments for Prayer
Retreats
Entering pray, guidance, and growth in faith. Offering seasonal and special retreats virtual as well as hosting in-person retreats in partnership with parishes and care communities. A life on the dementia journey is not always kind to escaping to a retreat, but that should not stop us from entering into deep prayer and the exploration of our faith life.
Seasonal Retreats
Growing in faith throughout the liturgical season, by reflecting on the challenges of faith and dementia, and in building community journeying together towards Heaven.
Seasonal Retreats include Advent, Lent, Easter, and Ordinary Time.
Audio Retreats
Audio retreats are the busy person’s answer, allowing you to go on retreat when you can and invite those you love to join you.
Current Theme: Who Do You Say That I Am? Exploring how our relationship with Christ, our knowledge of how God sees us, and an understanding of our Charisms can help us better care for those we love.
Memory Cafés
In the format of a Memory Café with the content of a retreat, we can best support our loved one living with dementia go on retreat with us. Offered through parishes, care communities, and other cultural settings.
Support Our Mission
As we switch platforms for these forms, please email Kate at Kate@hemofchrist.org if you are interested.
Workshops, Speaking, and Studies
Education
Through our capstone training, Wealthy in Faith, keynote address, and lectures we help people of faith explore what it means to live a life with dementia. Speaking for Parish Missions, events, education for lay ministers and parish staff, workshops for the parish community, and programs designed to support elder care organizations.
Workshops
Exploring ways to grow in our understanding of dementia and how our faith impacts our quality of life.
Keynotes and Events
Speaking at your events and conferences on the dignity and beauty of life with dementia.
ENDOW Studies
Formation in faith through women’s studies through ENDOW. Hosting groups both in-person and virtually throughout the year.
Our Difference
What We Promise
Faithfulness to the Teaching of the Church
Each program, each retreat, and each article put out by the Hem of Christ remains true to the teachings the Church
Person-Centered Care and Vision
Both our dementia journey and our faith journey are unique. So our accompaniment is also unique.
Tailored and Collaborative Approach
Nothing is cookie cutter. Through partnership we tailor workshops and events to meet the needs of your faith or care community.
Arts + Health
Arts and Faith
Offering Arts Access, Memory Cafés, and Life Enrichment programming with a theme of our Catholic faith and spirituality. (Done in partnership with Dementia Letters Project)
Arts Access
Looking at sacred art and music to help us enter into prayer, conversations, and community. Hosted at local cultural centers, parishes, and community centers.
Dementia Church Choir
Traditional Church Choir structured in ways to allow those with dementia to continue to give of their talents in music.
Life Enrichment
Providing programming for care communities and care organizations to offer their residents and clients. Making sure the dignity of the faith is kept alive in clinical settings.
Artist in Residence Program
Are You an Artist?
The Hem of Christ seeks to support artists who work to bring Christ to others through their work, and encourage artists to create a Christ-filled narrative of life with dementia. Working with both the professional and hobbits alike.
We would love to partner with you and find ways to financially support your work.
