1. Educate on health and wellness
   • Planning and organizing seminars, workshops and/or classes on wellness

2. Counsel on health issue
   • Meeting with church members to talk over health problems and answer questions.

3. Identify and teach volunteers
   • Finding and training lay volunteers to serve as visitors, program leaders, and other volunteer activities

4. Act as liaison with community health organizations
   • Keeping abreast of local resources, identifying suitable health care

5. Clarify the close relationship between faith and health
   • Talking to church members about spiritual issues

Taken from The Parish Nurse by Granger E. Westberg (Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress, 1990), 10-11.