If you're coming to Ballarat for healthcare ... or know someone in aged care ... then you can connect with Chaplaincy.
BRHC has 2 main branches to its ministry:
BRHC has 2 main branches to its ministry:
- Pastoral Care: Assistant Chaplains
- Church Teams: In-person Aged Care & Online Chapel
Pastoral Care: Assistant Chaplains
- Assistant Chaplains provide regular pastoral care to a venue (hospital or aged care).
- They are volunteers from local Uniting Church congregations who receive extra training, support and supervision.
- They work alongside the venue staff to pastorally care for and support patients, residents and their families.
- Ballarat Base Hospital
- St. John of God Hospital, Ballarat
- BUPA Aged Care, Delacombe
- Mercy Place, Ballarat East
- The W.B. Messer & P.S. Hobson Centre, Wendouree
- (Other venues available to be visited by request/referral. Click here for Contact Form.
Church Teams: In-person Aged Care
- Worship Teams are groups of Uniting Church members who provide a church service to an Aged Care venue.
- Services typically are 30-mins in length once a month.
- Church services are designed appropriate to the venue.
- Aged Care Venues must provide for the Spiritual Welfare of their residents - our church services assist with that.
Under non-Covid settings, In-person Aged Care Church Services are held at:
- Eureka Centre & Geoffrey Cutter, Ballarat East
- Hailey House, Wendouree
- Pine View Lodge, Ballarat North
- Nazareth House, Lake Wendouree
- Kirralee, Ballarat East
- Kelaston, Wendouree
- Steele Haughton Unit, QE Centre
- Bill Crawford Lodge, QE Centre
- Talbot Place, QE Centre
- BUPA Aged Care, Delacombe
- Mercy Place, Ballarat East
- James Thomas Court & Jack Lonsdale Lodge, Sebastopol
