Cancer Practitioners – Rev. Percy McCray
This video features Reverend Percy McCray, Director of Pastoral Care & Social Services at Cancer Treatment Centers of America (CTCA) at Midwestern Regional Medical Center. Rev. McCray discusses his interaction with patients who come to him for spiritual counseling:
"Every human being wants to be loved. Every human being wants to be valued. Every human being wants to be respected, and every human being wants to be forgiven.
If you can figure out a way to connect with people on those core basic ideas, then you have an opportunity to touch parts of them that may not necessarily have a relationship with any religious orientation, but with their humanity. And then you give them the ability to seek out their own direction, support that direction of what they believe religiously or spiritually, and allow them the right to practice that.
The key to ministering to cancer patients is not really your religious or spiritual orientation as much as finding common ground to meet and greet and begin to understand who they are as a human being—their hurts, their pains, their trials, their tribulations."
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