The Waikato Healthcare Chaplaincy Committee Charitable Trust will hold a concert "Hear and Care" on August 30.

The current chaplaincy team at Waikato Hospital is made up of three ecumenical chaplains, one Catholic chaplain, one Maori chaplain and 26 volunteer chaplaincy assistants.

The trust aims to raise 50 per cent of the chaplains' stipends each year through charitable grants and donations from fundraising events like this concert.

St Paul's Collegiate School's Chapel of Christ the King in Hamilton will host the "Hear and Care", which will feature more than 100 performers from 10 local acts.

Per Christe Canimus, which is the St John's College and Sacred Heart Girls' College combined choir, with soloist Ben Stucki, is one of the acts.

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Born in Fiji, he is of Indian Fijian heritage. He was ordained an Anglican priest and worked in parishes in Fiji before spending 8 years as a high school teacher.

Then he moved to Anglican diocese of Christchurch. He obtained a Bachelor of theology from Auckland University, a Bachelor of Nursing from the Manukau Institute of Technology, and worked as a lab technician before returning to pastoral ministry as the chaplain at the Mission to Seafarers in Auckland.

"I think I bring a cultural mix to the Waikato Hospital chaplaincy team and may be able to help with patients and visitors who speak other languages because as well as English, I speak Fijian Indian, most of the Indian dialects, and can also communicate in Tongan and Samoan as well," says Daniel.

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• Pacific Scoop
• Image: AucklandSeafarersCentre.co.nz

The ‘Friends of Hospital Chaplaincy' event was the first of its kind in New Zealand. It was organised by the DHB chaplaincy service so church leaders from a variety of denominations could gain insight into the scope and complexity of the hospital chaplains' role. Continue reading