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This story somehow follows nicely on this post<\/a><\/strong>, and tells of a deacon being taken where he never expected \u2014 or wanted \u2014 to go.<\/p>\n

From the Georgia Bulletin<\/a><\/strong>:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>When Lilburn resident Bob Hauert was asked to find a ministry in which to serve as part of his diaconate formation for the Archdiocese of Atlanta, he knew right away he did not want to work in hospice care.<\/p>\n

\u201cI will do anything but hospice,\u201d he told himself.<\/p>\n

But just a few years later, now officially ordained for the archdiocese, Deacon Hauert is serving as the full-time resident chaplain for Hospice Atlanta, the largest nonprofit home health care and hospice provider in Georgia.<\/p>\n

His \u201cconversion\u201d came after he was encouraged by a friend to volunteer at Hospice Atlanta, \u201cjust to try it out.\u201d Deacon Hauert completed a weekend training session and began serving as a volunteer at Hospice Atlanta shortly afterward.<\/p>\n

During one of his volunteer sessions, he remembers visiting with a patient who was unable to speak. A little unsure of how to handle the situation, he asked one of the nurses for advice. Just talk to him, the nurse said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s what I did. I talked to him, I sang to him, I prayed with him,\u201d Deacon Hauert recalled. \u201cThen I looked into his eyes and he looked into mine. There was a connection.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a very powerful spiritual moment,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Following this spiritual encounter, Deacon Hauert began to pursue chaplaincy and started the prerequisite Clinical Pastoral Education units (CPEs) at Hospice Atlanta. Through this experience, he served the patients as a chaplain instead of a volunteer. Last October Hospice Atlanta asked him to become their full-time chaplain, serving all their patients.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a whole different perspective,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd I got hooked on the grace of this ministry.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That\u2019s just for starters.\u00a0 Read the rest<\/a><\/strong> and see where his journey took him.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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