By Lonnie Wilkey
Editor, Baptist and Reflector
lwilkey@tnbaptist.org
NASHVILLE — Skyline Medical Center in Nashville is a mission field ripe for ministry opportunities, says chaplain Bill Palmiter.
Palmiter, who retired as pastor of Bethel Baptist Church, Greenbrier in 2007 after 20 years of ministry, has been a volunteer chaplain for 23 years and has been the lead chaplain at Skyline for about a year.
He, along with Julie Davis, director of volunteer and chaplain services at Skyline, are leading an effort to recruit chaplains and other volunteers for a number of other areas such as registration and waiting service areas.
The needs are great at Skyline which is known for its neuroscience program for stroke victims and its burn victims, he said. [Read more…]