FOR MORE than 25 years, Dr. Spence has served as a Personal and Care Facility Chaplain in Southwestern Pennsylvania. The particular services Dr. Spence renders as a Care Facility Chaplain are— (1) He visits weekly for an hour with every Home’s Residents and conducts the Church Service. Part of this time is spent talking with the Residents, and part of this time is filled with Hymns, Prayer, and the Sermon. (2) His Wife (whose heart and Prayers are with him in this Work) calls and speaks words of encouragement to Residents who become hospitalized. (3) He provides every Home’s Residents with free printed copies of his Printed Sermons. (4) He provides free Bibles to those who ask. (5) He loans Christian classics from his extensive library. (6) He makes hospital trips to those who request for him to see them at such times. Among these services, Dr. Spence does his highest good through the weekly visits. His best assistance is done through his Sermons. Dr. Spence’s Sermons are simple. His main aim is to do good to the hearts and souls of the Residents. The central goal of his preaching is to convey the leading Doctrines of Scripture. Dr. Spence is a full-time Independent Chaplain and receives his singular salary from those he serves. See Deuteronomy 18.1; I Samuel 9.7-10; II Kings 4.9,10; II Kings 5.5,6; II Kings 8.8; Matthew 10.9,10; I Corinthians 9.11; Galatians 6.6. Before the intrusive governmental virus impositions, Dr. Spence was serving more than twenty Care Facilities in the greater Pittsburgh area. These sad days just over half that number consider his services to be “essential” and still have him among their Residents. But by GOD'S Grace, Dr. Spence has not sat still. Nor has GOD been slack concerning His Promise to supply all financial need. Last year, Dr. Spence spent more time in Prayer praying for the Care Facilities. Since Spring of last year (2020), on the telephone, he and his Wife spoke with Residents every week who poured out their hearts about the real difficulty of living in a Care Facility during an extreme lockdown. He wrote 514 Letters to Care Facility Owners, Administrators, Activity Directors, Aides, Residents, Residents' Families, former Residents, and former Residents' Families. He distributed his Printed Sermons in 476 Care Facilities where he does not minister (including Care Facilities in Maryland, West Virginia, and Ohio). In Fact, a special effort is still underway that instead of distributing 1,300 copies of the Printed Sermons this quarter, 2,000 copies are being distributed. Because of the virus impositions, these are difficult days for the Sick and Elderly. Attempt is being made get the Printed Sermons in as many Care Facilities as possible. If you would like to financially help in this special effort, all contributions are gratefully received.
