Charles Lindholm

Greeting Friends,

I have not written an update for several months.   Since I last wrote, I have spent five weeks (mostly in June) in Berlin and one week visiting  the Reformation sites of Martin Luther.  This trip to Germany I had the pleasure of serving as co-leader, teacher and translator, for a group mostly from Prince of Peace Lutheran Church in Clifton Park, NY.   I am arranging with my webmaster to get some pictures of our time in Germany.  Keep your eye open to my web site and take a look at these digital pictures.

Charles D. Lindholm, D.Min.

Dear Friends,

I think you will agree with me that my webmaster, Dave Adikes, has done a very skillful job developing my website. He is a fellow Rotarian who has learned the value of living by the Rotary motto “Service Above Self.” He made the offer to set up a website for me gratus and I jumped at that oppportunity. Since the creation of my websidte, I have found the wonderful plus in being able to communicate with a wider public through the internet.

The original motivation for a website was to make my doctoral dissertation available to chaplains at other hospitals. Not every medical center has a medical staff that has learned how to use pastoral care to the fullest and when to make a referral to a chaplain. The positive experiences that the medical staff has with well-trained hospital chaplains can go a long ways to enhance the ministry of pastoral care. This ministry is meant not only for the patients, but also for the patient’s supportive family and often times it is needed by the overworked nurses in caring for their patients. In the many difficult situations faced in a medical center, the chapain can provide spiritual and emotional support, a listening ear to the to the patients, parents/family, and the medical staff assisting them at a time of greatest spiritual need.

Charles Lindholm, D.Min.

I have been using my website for one month now and I am hoping to hear from you regarding your observations of my new website. I am planning on adding more information as time passes so that you will be able to read something new.

I am quite excited about being tour leader of the group of people going to Germany on the Reformation tour. If you or anyone you may know who would like to participate in the Berlin mission project and the Reformation Tour, you/they should contact me by January 31st at the latest.

I am hoping you had a good Christmas and that your New Year will be filled with many good blessings to fill your life.

Charles D. Lindholm

Welcome to my new website. You are invited to look around and read some of my Doctoral dissertation on Pastoral Care.

‘You may be interested in the plans to take interested members of Prince of Peace Lutheran Church, Clifton Park on a Mission Project at the American Church in Berlin and a Reformation Tour of the cities and sites of Dr. Martin Luther and his efforts to reform the Catholic Church.

I will also be posting information on my present effort: writing a book on the history of the American Church in Berlin from 1930 through the present time.

Please contact me if you have any questions or information you would like to share with me

May you have a wonderful Christmas with all your family and friends.

Dr. Charles D. Lindholm