Please Join Us

Thursday, March 4, 2010
6:00 PM to 7:30 PM

Spiritual Care - Hope and Healing
in American Samoa

Red Cross volunteer, Tim Serban, will talk
about his disaster relief work in American Samoa.

Tacoma Public Library
Downtown Tacoma Main Branch, Olympic Room
1102 Tacoma Avenue South, Tacoma, WA 98402

March as Red Cross Month Special Presentation

About our Guest Speaker

Tim Serban was deployed to American Samoa as a member of the National Red Cross Spiritual Care Response Team. Tim is the Director of Mission Integration and Spiritual Care at Providence Regional Medical Center Everett and has worked in area of Spiritual Care, Mission Integration and Ethics for over 22 years. He is a board certified chaplain with the National Association of Catholic Chaplains. Tim is a co-author of two books: Disaster Spiritual Care: Practical Clergy Responses to Community, Regional and National Tragedy published March 2008, The R.E.D. Guide to Recovery published January 2010. 

Tim serves as a volunteer lead of the Red Cross Spiritual Care Response Team and an official liaison to the National American Red Cross in Washington D.C. for the National Association of Catholic Chaplains. He has been deployed to New York City following September 11th, to New Orleans immediately following Hurricane Katrina, Gustav & Ike (2005 & 2008), and most recently for a three week assignment to American Samoa following the devastating Tsunami in the South Pacific, October 2009.