Bartels Retirement Community
Chaplaincy
For over 70 years, Bartels Lutheran Retirement Community has provided a loving, caring, Christian home for senior adults. The Bartels Chaplaincy program anchors this treasured service.
Spiritual Life - A Commitment to Christian Service
Ministering to the spiritual needs of all residents, regardless of their church affiliation, the Bartels Chaplaincy helps fulfill the overall mission of the retirement community: Enriching lives through quality services and Christian care.
A Responsibility for Spiritual Growth
We are committed, at Bartels, to the health of body and spirit. This commitment to improving the spirituality of our older adults sets us apart from similar organizations. It’s an essential part of the glue which holds the Bartels community together. A fully-funded Chaplaincy Endowment will allow continued devotion to:
- An understanding of the unique joys and concerns of aging adults.
- A successful extension of our residents’ home church ministries.
- The overarching Bartels mission and commitment to serving the spiritual needs of all our residents.
Good Shepherd CHapel
Worship Schedule & Special Services
Sunday Worship Schedule
- 9:15 a.m. Eichhorn Haus Dining Room
- 10:15 a.m. Good Shepherd Chapel
- 11:00 a.m. Evergreen Arbor
- 11:30 a.m. Aspen Cottage
- LC-MS Worship & Communion 10 a.m. each Thursday, Good Shepherd Chapel
- Catholic Mass – fourth Thursday each month at 3:00 pm, Good Shepherd Chapel
Special Services are held for:
- Thanksgiving
- Christmas Eve
- Christmas Day
- Celebration of All Saints
- Ash Wednesday
- Wednesdays in Lent
- Palm Sunday
- Maundy Thursday
- Good Friday
- Easter
A Commitment to Future Generations
The Bartels Chaplaincy Endowment, created in 1997, ensures continuous full-time Chaplaincy services at Bartels.
Our Endowment funds are invested in perpetuity, to forever earn interest income for supporting the Chaplaincy program. These earnings will help ensure these services, the very heart of our Christian mission, do not become vulnerable to operational budget challenges.
Donate Today
Donors who support the Chaplaincy Endowment Campaign may make their donation through an immediate or pledged cash gift, stocks, donor-advised fund, or by a planned gift such as will bequests, trust fund, life insurance, real estate, or other planned gift.
For more information, contact Angie Daniels in the Development Office at 319-352-6105 or email her at adaniels@bartelscommunity.org.
Exceptional Dedication
The Bartels Chaplain provides a full-time chaplaincy ministry to all residents in many ways:
- Serving all locations on the Bartels campus including: Anna Estates, Eisenach Village, Eichhorn Haus, Linden Place, Aspen Cottage, Woodland Terrace and Evergreen Arbor
- Leading Sunday ecumenical worship services in the Good Shepherd Chapel, as well as other worship areas.
- Conducting Bible studies & Grief Support Groups
- Leading daily meal time prayers and noon devotions in the dining rooms
- Visiting residents through one-on-one visits
- Visiting residents in the hospital
- Attending to residents and their families during the end of life process, funerals, and celebrations of life
- Coordinating programs involving Wartburg students, church groups, and area clergy
- Acting as liaison between residents and representatives of residents’ home church
- The Bartels Chaplain also ministers to staff and their families as well as carries the Bartels message to church and community groups.
