Every Winter is followed by Spring. The long, long winter of Covid has spanned over two years of daily hardship and heroism by our community’s life saving, life sustaining, and end-of-life caring healthcare teams.

How do we, their local community, say thank you? Thank you for their clinical care. Their dedication. Their sacrifices. Their acts of tireless treatment and aid to heal, relieve pain, counter anxiety and fear. Their acts of compassion, the thousands of daily kindnesses. Their exhaustion.  Their stresses on their mind, body and spirit in these most trying of times. The sacrifices they and their families have made and continue to make each day, on all our behalf.

We, the First Congregational Church (FCC) of Camden, thank each one of our healthcare team.  While tending mostly to the spirit, the FCC respects the vital need for the health and healing of mind, body, and spirit for all - patients and caregivers, families and neighbors.  We are all one community.

As a spiritual member and partner in our community, we at the FCC lift up with the deepest of respect and gratitude our healthcare givers. We pray for your safety, strength, health and wellness. We thank you for attending to the whole person, mindful that for so many, the yearning for spiritual connection is often so very real and present, during this pandemic. As a church, we strive to be the best partner for your healthcare work - to encourage vaccination, to support public health measures, to be here for you and our community.

We honor you for caring so deeply about the well-being of all of God’s children - with loving care, compassion, and inclusivity for all.

Before the pandemic, so many of us owed our lives to these noble healthcare providers. Today, countless more do and will. 

Thank you.

May Spring soon be upon us all.

The staff and members of the First Congregational Church of Camden