Laura Young
ECB Publishing, Inc.
For the past several years, Christ Episcopal Church has hosted a monthly free health clinic that was an outreach ministry of Shepherd's Hands of the Suwannee Valley. There will be no clinic this March, while local efforts are underway to reorganize the health ministry.
The aim has been to provide free health services to all who qualify and are in need. These have included medical examinations based on the particular problems of the individual, testing for diabetes, urinalysis, screening for eye problems and heart monitoring. The clinics have been staffed by volunteer medical and non medical people who come from varied local churches to lend a hand to other neighbors.
The Monticello News will announce when organizers are ready to resume this service.