Emergency Services Chaplain Bill Lotz . . .
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Recruits, trains and administers teams of volunteer emergency response
chaplains who come alongside our fire and police departments in the
Columbia basin.
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Developed a
training program for emergency service chaplains that is used throughout
the nation to teach fire department chaplains how to minister in
emergency crises.
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Provides
support for fire and other emergency personnel.
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Coordinates
stress debriefing services for emergency personnel and for community
members.
Emergency
chaplains respond as needed to crises scenes, minister spiritually and
emotionally to victims and their families, provide communication between
emergency workers and victims, follow an incident as it transitions from
home to hospital or elsewhere, connect victims to other community
support such as the
Red Cross or other clergy, and maintain personal and
professional relationships
with emergency workers.
Chaplain
Bill brings experience from fire service and pastoral work together in a
program designed to meet the immediate needs of crisis victims and of
emergency service personnel. He has been involved in fire service since
1978, and has been in ministry since 1988.
Chaplain Lotz is committed to serving the
communities and emergency response agencies of the Columbia Basin. He can
be reached at:
Bill's
office phone number is 783-7416 holismoke@msn.com
Read more about Chaplain Lotz: "What
Fires-up the Fire Chaplain"
read more and
"Chaplain of the Year" Award-October 28, 2004 from the Federation of
Fire Chaplains read
more.
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