Who We Serve
Turnkey Ministries provides respectful, evening chaplain visits offering encouragement, prayer, and hope to patients in rehab hospitals and skilled nursing facilities.
- Hope in Recovery
Who We Serve
Each day of each year a patient is admitted to a Rehab Hospital or Skilled Nursing facility. Arriving most often following a hospital confinement, this facility becomes their temporary home. Recovering after surgery or other hospital treatment may involve rehab, rest, and other skilled nursing treatment.
For the patient this can be a lonely and frightening experience – and stressful. Fear of the future as well as deep concern about those left behind at home may be overwhelming.
Turnkey Ministries Volunteer chaplains and visitors regularly visit patients room by room. The first order of business is to receive permission for the visit from the patient. Assuming permission, the Volunteer Chaplains will bring encouragement, friendliness, and conversation. Conversation is light and cheerful. Before leaving the Chaplain will offer prayer. Most visits are limited to about ten minutes. Discussion of spiritual matters are narrow with an emphasis on the grace, encouragement, and hope promised in the Bible. Argument, conflict, and deep conversation is avoided.
Visits are conducted in the early evening hours usually between 6:30 and 8:00 pm. This fills a vital need of the facility for evening social and spiritual visits. Reliable, disciplined, and managed Turnkey Ministries volunteer teams are comprised of two individuals. One member of a team is an appointed TKM chaplain, while the other is normally training.
Turnkey Ministries maintains consistent security protocol. All volunteer chaplains and recurring visitors are required to undergo and pass criminal background screening. Confidentiality is strictly maintained. Teams will not accept or solicit gifts from the patient or their guests – they have no agenda other than bringing the gift of friendliness, encouragement, and the offer of hope found through Jesus Christ.
- Compassion in Recovery
A Simple Mission
A Compassionate Presence.
A Message of Hope
There are 1.7 million (1,670,000) hospital beds in skilled nursing facilities! WHO WILL BE IN THOSE BEDS? Will it be you or me, or a family member or other loved one? A neighbor, a friend?
Into those beds will be patients who possibly were in a vehicle accident, just underwent surgery, broke a bone – any number of medical reasons. They certainly didn’t ask to be confined to a healthcare facility like a prisoner. Most are frightened, lonely, fearing their future. Will they be confined for a week, two weeks, three, or more? Now he or she is powerless to take care of those at home. Just imagine how you’d feel.
A huge percentage of these patients have no faith; they wouldn’t consider walking into a church. And now they’re swept aside and forgotten.
Stop a second. How would you feel if you were confined, had no or limited faith, and couldn’t plan for the next day or week, month, or ever? Your control is suddenly lost?
This ministry answered the call to visit these patients bringing them a friendly and encouraging chat, and the offer of prayer. Over the last two decades our teams have visited several thousand patients. Some were people of faith to whom we provided the same visit. To patients who had no faith, who never thought they would be speaking about God, OUR TEAMS OFFERED PRAYER. THOUSANDS OF THOSE FOR WHOM WE PRAYED were told of Jesus’s love for them and his awesome gift of redemption. They prayed with us and RECEIVED NEW LIFE and HOPE.