Nourishing your spirit
Ministry specializing in pastoral care
Faith and fellowship provide hope and strength during every life stage. The Church Home ministry offers spiritual support and care for all residents of all faith traditions and beliefs.
The Church Home chaplains nurture relationships with Montgomery Place residents by participating in activities and maintaining a reassuring presence. They build rapport infused with goodwill and humor.
Following its Episcopal heritage, the Church Home celebrates traditions of all faiths through worship in the Chapel. It serves as a haven for meditation, devotion, and conversation.
Everyone faces life challenges. Those later in life often prove the most difficult because they feel so inevitable—loss of family and friends, illness, declining abilities, and finally one’s own death.
For Montgomery Place, the Church Home:
- Provides grief counseling for residents and their families
- Visits residents in their apartments and when they are hospitalized
- Assists with crisis intervention
- Conducts bereavement and aging support groups
- Supports staff members in their role as caregivers
Our Leadership
The Rev. Lin Sanford Keppert serves as chaplain and coordinator of spiritual care at Church Home/Montgomery Place. She has provided spiritual care to the Montgomery Place community since 2011. Rev. Lin is an ordained pastor with the American Baptist Churches USA and brings a background in environmental engineering, psychology, art therapy, interfaith dialogue, Black gospel music, and the visual arts to her ministry. Her interests include pastoral care to specialized populations and the design of interdenominational, interracial, and interfaith worship opportunities. She is a member of the Association of Professional Chaplains.
The Rev. Catherine Healy is an Episcopal priest who is delighted to be serving with the Church Home, where her primary responsibilities include leading the Sunday congregation at Montgomery Place and developing formation resources on aging for the wider church and beyond. Rev. Catherine also serves as a content editor for the Daily Office Network (dailyoffice.org), and her writing has appeared inThe Christian Century, Sundays & Seasons, d365.org, Geez Magazine, and Forward Day by Day. She is a Chicago native who shares life with her wife, children, and a magnificent family forest that includes many different trees.
With ministers trained to serve people of all faith traditions and those who claim none, the Church Home is affiliated with the Episcopal Diocese of Chicago.
The Church Home Board of Directors
The Church Home Board continues the work started in 1888 by its founder Rev. Walter Delafield, director of an Episcopalian parish in Hyde Park, to provide housing and pastoral care for older adults.
Constance Bonbrest
Morag Fullilove
Gregory Gleason
Susan Miller Overbey
Henry Palmer
The Rev. Joy Rogers
Charles Stewart
Scott Williamson
