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Massachusetts Conference of the United Church of Christ partners with Honoring Choices Massachusetts

The Massachusetts Conference of the United Church of Christ (MACUCC) is joining our family of Partners to help bring Massachusetts-based health care planning information and documents to their 370 churches and 70,000 members across the Commonwealth.

“Any one of us, church goers or not, is likely to face times of having to make difficult care decisions” says Rev. Ellie Richardson, Associate Conference Minister for Lay and Clergy Leadership Development. “If we are in partnership in these decisions early on with our family, friends, and care providers, the difficult decisions when they come can be made easier.”

As an Honoring Choices Alliance Partner, we provide MACUCC with educational materials and programs for every adult and family in all congregations to have equal access to the full range of health care planning information and tools at no cost. Each church also now becomes an integral part of their local Honoring Choices Community Partner Network which includes community groups, care professionals, and health care organizations, all working together to help adults to make their own individualized health care plan based on their particular care goals, values and choices. The Partners’ network also emphasizes making these choices at every phase of life: beginning when healthy rather than waiting for the stressful time of managing illness or nearing the end of life.

Being a member of a congregation also means being involved in a caring community. Congregants can now make use of specific information and tools to spark meaningful, focused discussions to help ensure that their fellow members, including vulnerable adults, understand how best to choose a Health Care Agent to step in and advocate for their care if and when the need arises.

Honoring Choices is delighted to support MACUCC in leading the way to providing this information and to empower their churches’ congregants to be prepared for these sometimes difficult discussions, and to help all their members have equal access the best possible health care all through their lives.

You can read more here.