{"id":10860,"date":"2021-01-08T10:16:16","date_gmt":"2021-01-08T15:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.presbyterianfoundation.org\/?p=10860"},"modified":"2025-07-18T10:33:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T14:33:04","slug":"%eb%8b%a4%eb%a5%b8-%ec%82%ac%eb%9e%8c%ec%9d%84-%eb%8f%8c%eb%b3%b4%eb%8a%94-%ec%82%ac%eb%9e%8c%eb%93%a4%ec%97%90-%eb%8c%80%ed%95%9c-%eb%b0%b0%eb%a0%a4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.presbyterianfoundation.org\/ko\/resources\/news\/caring-for-those-who-care-for-others\/","title":{"rendered":"\ub2e4\ub978 \uc0ac\ub78c\uc744 \ub3cc\ubcf4\ub294 \uc0ac\ub78c\ub4e4\uc744 \uc704\ud55c \ubc30\ub824"},"content":{"rendered":"

About a year ago, Union Theological Seminary<\/a> in New York City hired the Rev. Bertram Johnson<\/a> as an interfaith minister. His call is to help students with their discernment process, including three students working as peer chaplains.<\/p>\n

\u201cI provide spiritual care for them in a way they will hopefully model for their classmates,\u201d Johnson told the Rev. Dr. Lee Hinson-Hasty, senior director for Theological Funds Development for the Committee on Theological Education of the PC(USA) and the Presbyterian Foundation<\/a>, during Hinson-Hasty\u2019s twice-monthly Facebook Live event<\/a> and an accompanying podcast, \u201cLeading Theologically.\u201d<\/p>\n

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the Rev. Bertram Johnson<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cWe are not therapists or saviors. We are there just to listen for God\u2019s voice and what they hear God saying to them,\u201d Johnson said. He and the three student chaplains \u201cprocess situations as they come up, their anxieties and insecurities. It\u2019s been great to see them grow through that and follow their own path, not the one we set for them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Much of the work put in by the three student chaplains is \u201cinterior work,\u201d Johnson said. \u201cIt\u2019s beyond the 45 minutes [each week] you might spend with the person. They\u2019re working in a new city and a new church and they\u2019re figuring out how to be creative and to speak with authority.\u201d<\/p>\n

The students tell him they\u2019ve been struck with this thought, he said: \u201cThe world I came to serve in seminary doesn\u2019t look like the world we are in right now.\u201d Some students at the seminary have lost family members during the pandemic. \u201cHow does that impact their call to ministry, not being able to go home and grieve those loved ones?\u201d Johnson asked. \u201cThese are real-life issues where people are seeking God as well as love and support.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not in a congregational setting,\u201d said Johnson, who has served churches during his ministry, \u201cbut these are things congregational pastors encounter every day.\u201d<\/p>\n

Johnson said he\u2019s also consulting with a COVID-19 prevention network, studying how advances can be shared effectively in faith communities. That got him talking about his Clinical Pastoral Education experience as a young seminarian working with and learning from HIV\/AIDS patients in an Atlanta hospital.<\/p>\n

As a 24-year-old seminarian, \u201cI didn\u2019t know what I had to offer,\u201d Johnson told Hinson-Hasty. \u201cI was younger than they expected. I heard their stories of rejection by family, by community and by their faith community,\u201d where patients often heard this message: \u201cThe virus was a sign of God\u2019s judgment.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI wasn\u2019t an out man at that point in my life, but I understood what it felt like to be rejected,\u201d Johnson said. \u201cI felt my job at that point was to be an ambassador of God\u2019s love and grace.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople were being left to die,\u201d he said. \u201cThey had few visitors and lots of shame and condemnation. It helped me to see how being present with someone could offer them God\u2019s grace.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Rev. Bertram Johnson will preach during opening worship of the 2021 NEXT Church National Gathering, which is being held online. Opening worship begins at 11 a.m. Eastern Time on March 5.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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