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• Encourage discussion about donation in your community as well as in your hospital, if you serve as a pastoral care chaplain. It is much easier for families to understand your faith’s support of donation before they face a crisis and the loss of a loved one.
• New life arising from death is a common faith-based theme. When appropriate, talk about organ donation in your sermons and messages during worship services.
• Lead prayer to remember those families who suffered loss through death yet whose loved one gave new life to others. Remember also the thousands of men, women and children who continue to wait for desperately needed organs and tissue to save or improve their lives.
• Work with community groups, other religious organizations and families to promote public understanding of ecumenical support for the gift of donation and transplantation.
• Lead by example: Let your congregation know that you have registered as a life-giving donor and encourage others to make this decision.
• Share reminders about the gift of donation in your community, and in your bulletins and newsletters. We are happy to provide you with information to share.
• Through your congregation or through Gift of Hope, invite a donor family member or transplant recipient to speak during a worship service or ministry workshop or discussion.
• Celebrate National Donor Sabbath, with thousands of congregations throughout the country, every November two weekends before Thanksgiving weekend.