WHAT WE DO AEMCH members visit residents and organize worship opportunities for them, hold educational workshops, offer training classes for volunteers, and thus promote individual and congregational ministries.
2011 AEMCH Honorees: Rev. Anne Cox Bailey, Pat Miller, Peter Menkin, Emily Lyon (not videoed). Rev. Patricia is introduced .
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WHAT YOU CAN DO AEMCH 'S 30th ANNIVERSRY FEBRUARY 2011
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AEMCH
1700 SANTA CLARA AVE.,
ALAMEDA, CA. 94501
THE WAYS YOU CAN HELP
Our volunteers help in facilities by:
Making regular visits Conduction worship serivces and Bible study Offering spiritual and emotional support to residents Participating in faciity activieties such as tea parties or garden pardies Supporting family members Sending greeting cards Making lap robes'Baking cookies Providing gifts at holidays and much more! Being someone who cares Lending a caring ear or Credit Card
CHURCHES Episcopal Churches and their Representatives
Alameda Deanery Churches
Christ Church, Alameda (Janet Waring)
1700 Santa Clara Avenue
Alameda, California 94501
All Souls, Berkeley ( Emily Lyon )
2220 Cedar Street, Berkeley, CA 94709
St. Clement's, Berkeley (Alyce Proctor)
2837 Claremont Boulevard, Berkeley, CA 94705
St. Mark's, Berkeley (Jan Robitscher)
2300 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, CA 94704
St. John's, Montclair (Ray Riess)
1707 Gouldin Road, Oakland, CA 94611
Christ the Lord, Pinole (Elaine Glimme)
592 A Tennent AvenuePinole, CA 94564
Holy Trinity, Richmond (Pat Miller)
555 37th Street
Richmond, CA 94805
Southern Alameda Deanery
Holy Cross, Castro Valley
(Wendy Jacobsen)
St. Annes, Fremont
St. James, Fremont (Sandra Motley)
St. Clares, Pleasanton
All Saints, San Leandro
(Melissa Counsell)
Marin Deanery
Church of Our Saviour, Mill Valley
(Peter Menkin)
Church of the Holy Innocents,
Corte Madera
Contra Costa Deanery
St. Lukes, Rossmoor
(The Rev. Anne Cox-Bailey)
Want to be a part of this Care Ministry?
W e will assist you in contacting your congregations representative. That person will give you help you find your place in their AEMCH program. Remember Your presence can in itself be a God send to a lonely and isolated individual. Don't delay your opportunity to be that person!
CONTACT AEMCH HERE BOARD 
Board of overseers
Robin Wiley Vice Chair 2011
Melinda Hayes,
Treasurer Temp
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Secretary
The Rev. Rudy Johnson
AEMCH SEEKING NEW COORDINATING CHAPLAIN
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Diane Stavrum, M.Div.
Webmaster
CHAIR OF THE BOARD
Jan Robitscher, M.A., M.Div.
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Newletter Editor
COORDINATING CHAPLAIN'S AND BOARD OVERSEER'S EFFORTS INCLUDE:
+ EDUCATION & TRAINING SESSIONS--LOCAL TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES-
* Meet with each participating congregational representative to plan
* Visit the Infirm Training Day for each Church with experienced AEMCH
Chaplain to help.
* ON SITE CONGREGATIONS DAY EVENTS OF TRAINING IN
VISITING THE AGED AND INFIRM
* EPISC. AREA TRAINING OF LAY EP. LEADERSHIP-TAKE COMMUNION
+ WE ENCOURAGE ADVOCACY IN OUR LARGER COMMUNITY
+ WE INCREASE AWARENESS ABOUT VISITING CONVALESCENT HOMES
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DONATE 
AEMCH is supported in part by funds from the Alameda, Southern Alameda and Contra Costa Deaneries, the Lowell Berry Foundation, the Darby Betts Foundation, the Episcopal Diocese of California, Episcopal Charities, and by pledges and gifts from many parishes.
ALL DONATIONS ARE WELCOME
the FUNDS will help out hosting
another 2012 Training Worshop. Thank you.
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EMAIL ME Jan Robitscher, M.A., M.Div. Autobiography
I was born in Washington, and raised in the Philadelphia area, the first child of Jean and Jonas Robitscher. After high school (and a family move to Atlanta) I attended DePauw University, where I majored in music, and went on to the University of Notre Dame to study liturgy and then seminary at Nashotah House.
After seminary I spent four years in Atlanta and then came to Berkeley and the GTU hoping to do a Ph. D. in Liturgy. The workload proved more than I could do, but at the same time I gave the annual retreat for the School for Deacons and joined the faculty there in 1991. Since then I have taught courses on the Common Prayer Book, the Anglican hymnology, and, more recently Social Ministries and preaching.
My work with older people began with my grandmother, who spent her last years in Atlanta. Visits to the hospice unit of Wesley Woods Retirement Center were a good start to this ministry. After coming to Berkeley, I joined a group at St. Marks who visited both Ashby Care and Berkeley Pines Convalescent Hospitals once a month to do a service of Word and hymns. We concentrate on Berkeley Pines, going twice each month to do our Word-and-hymns service which was designed by Bob Williams and myself.
My work on the AEMCH Board began with a stint on the Advisory Council. With the encouragement of long-time Board member Fran Carlson, I joined the Board and, with retirement of Doc. Arlinda Cosby along with the transition of Chaplain Este Gardner Cantor to Chaplain, I became Chair.
It is my delight to lead the Board into the 30th year of AEMCH and I pray that our candle will continue to shine brightly for many years to come!
The Rev Rudy Johnson 
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The Rev. Rudy Johnson
Rudy Johnson: church experience as clergy: in the Episcopal Church, organized Holy Cross Episcopal Church in Castro Valley, where we bought land and built the new church. Holy Cross came into being because the court awarded the property of the old Trinity Episcopal Church in Hayward to a dissident group, which later collapsed and sold the property to a non-Christian group.
After Castro Valley, became rector of St.Clements's Church in Berkeley. Before being involved in the Episcopal Church, I organized and served two Lutheran parishes, St.Stephen's Church in El Dorado Hills, Ca., and University Lutheran Church, built adjoining Stanford University and built to serve the University community.
Arlinda Cosby came to us in Hayward and Castro Valley and got us involved in service to convalescent hospitals. I found her work excellent and greatly appreciated by those she served. Since that time I have supported AEMCH every way I can.
Personal material: B.D. degree from Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary in Berkeley, and Ph.D. from Stanford
Robin Wiley 
Robin Hohenegger Wiley VICE CHAIR Autobiography
I am a fifth generation Californian raised at Trinity Episcopal Church of Hayward, and a charter
member of Holy Cross Castro Valley.
I have been a vestry member, Sunday school teacher, choir member and I have preached on the Feast of St. Francis with a snake in hand.
Yes a woman of many talents. I am a second generation AEMCHer. My mother Barbara Hohenegger was one of Arlinda's faithful. I hold an AA in Developmental Disabilities and I have been an Early Childhood Specialist for many years. This has served me well for I am also the mother of a 25year old son with special needs.
Besides this I cared for both my parents having grown up with a father with MS and later my mother with dementia. A combination of familial health problems kept me very close medical facilities.
I care about all, but mostly about the disenfranchised. I am very dedicated to help communicate with those that need that willingness of others to reach out and touch their lives and bring warmth understanding and love.
-Robin
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Melinda Hayes 
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Melinda M. Hayes
new to AEMCH board in fall of 2010 attends Christ Church Alameda since 1968 when she moved to Alameda. Her current activities in CCA include Altar Guild, Welcoming Committee, Lay Eucharistic Minister, Reader, Pastoral Care Committee. Melinda has served on Vestry multiple terms, Deanery one term, has been both a Senior Warden and an Associate Warden, and worked on many pledge campaigns over the last twenty plus years.
She has taken Home Communion to, and visited with, individuals at hospitals, nursing homes, residences, etc., for over twenty five years, often with her children before they went off to college.
Melinda is a retired Alameda County Staff Attorney IV, and currently works part-time as a Real Estate Broker and Notary Public in the East Bay. She is also a volunteer at the Alameda Food Bank, and sits on the Board of aCs-SAFE and regularly knits and crochets prayer shawls, hats, and scarves for many homeless/teen/community organizations.
Diane Stavrum MDiv 
Diane Stavrum M.Div.
Since the Fall of 2008 Diane has been the Chaplain on Staff at Chaparral House, Berkeley. Weekly she visits with the residents and holds an Episcopal Healing Communion Service on Sundays.
Dianes other current ministry is with TherapyPets. Diane and Suzi, her Tibetan Shi Tzu dog are visitors along with Jan Robitscher and her seeing-eye dog Lorell on the Pulmonary Sub Acute section once a week (almost weekly) and the Rehab floor at the Alta Bates Medical Center, Herrick Campus. She also makes private one to one visits with other elders in various in home situations.
In 2007 Diane graduated with her Masters of Divinity Degree from the Church Divinity Seminary of the Pacific, Episcopal Seminary at the GTU in Berkeley. She came to seminary following fifteen years as her Mother's primary care-giver who died in 1995 of colon lung cancer, and later as her Father's primary care-giver who died from pancreatic cancer and diabetes in 2004.
Through that intense experience, Diane has learned a great deal about the process of aging, and how one comes to grips with a terminal illness, as well as the responses and reactions of the spouse, including the family relationship dynamics in relating to the reality of a loved one dying. On a spiritual level she has said, she found a deeper understanding, which can only be expressed by a silent awareness with others who have 'been there.' The effects of grief take place on the physical, mental, and a spiritual level in during the dying process as well as during the bereavement time. Diane has expressed that this experience for her was yet another "window of light" awakening hers to God's plan for her life in ministry to others.
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