Pastoral Care

At Auburn Homes and Services, we put spiritual care at the core of our residents’ well-being. Our pastoral care program includes regularly scheduled worship, bible study, and chapel chat experiences, as well as opportunities for individual one-on-one spiritual direction. We offer weekly worship services provided by our chaplain staff, as well as community pastors from a variety of denominational perspectives (including Moravian, Missouri Synod Lutheran, ELCA, Baptist, Catholic, United Church of Christ, and Non-Denominational). Our Bible studies and Chapel Chats offer a Bible-based approach to studying scripture in an ecumenical context. In addition, our pastoral care services are designed to embody a grief-centered, trauma-informed, narrative approach to spiritual care that keeps the dignity and autonomy of the residents at its center. In our approach, we seek to help our residents answer those existential questions that we wrestle with over the entire span of our lifetimes.

Pastoral care here at Auburn embodies the motto of the Moravian church, which is … “in essentials, unity. In non-essentials, liberty. In all things, love.”

We meet residents wherever they are on their faith journeys, and through active engagement, help them to discover the unity and love of our faithful community. Residents at Auburn will find that their spiritual lives will be nurtured and cared for in the same way their physical needs are met as well.

Rev. Cathy M. Kolwey
Director of Chaplaincy