Care Resource Guide

a guide for care, visitation, mental health support, deacon support and more

For more information or to receive pastoral care, please contact deaconsupport@solanapre.org.

Home Communion - For those unable to attend worship

Medical Supplies - Equipment to loan for those in need

Transportation - Offering rides to Sunday worship

Memorial Receptions - Providing refreshments and hosting

Encouragement Cards - Notes of encouragement and comfort

Meals - For the ill, recovering, grieving and childbirth

Welcome Baby - Helping and encouraging parents with newborns

Friendship Visitation - Visiting others to spread joy and share smiles 

Mature Adults - Providing fellowship and care for mature adults

Prayer Support - Confidentially praying for all needs and requests

Prayer Team - Praying one-on-one for others after Sunday service

Grief Support - Coming together to share our journey through grief


Follow the links above or see below for more information.

Deacon Board

Moderator Terri Carter, deaconsupport@solanapres.org


Secretary /Communication Anita Power, deaconsupport@solanapres.org 


Board Members - 2025

Claudia Bell, Ahlia Biondi, Nicole Hamilton, Julie Huebner, Debbie Inada, Cindy Johnson, Sharon Lao, Jean Morgan, Cheryl Murray, Suzie Pegel, Kim Peterson. Cathy Pritchard and Valerie Tuck


Pastoral Advisor 

Candice Richey Womack

Associate Pastor 

858 509-2580 x 1211

candice@solanapres.org

Deacon Care Ministries

Encouragement Cards & Notes Encouragement in times of loss, illness & personal difficulty. 


Meals Preparing and delivering meals to the ill, recovering, grieving & childbirth.


Visitation

  • Friendship Visitation - Regular visits to assigned homebound “friend”. 
  • Convalescent or Home - Short term visitation during convalescence & rehabilitation.


Welcome Baby A new ministry to parents with newborns 


Nicole Hamilton, Sharon Lao, Cheryl Murray: deaconsupport@solanapres.org

Deacon Prayer Ministries

Prayer Chain Prayer Chain Team prays confidentially for all needs & requests submitted via email & worship connect cards. Jean Morgan, prayerchain@solanapres.org


Prayer Teams One-on-one prayer is offered after Sunday worship service in the Sanctuary and on the Patio.


Weekly Prayer Focus Providing prayer gatherings/opportunities and resources in 

response to needs/events in our congregation, community, nation & world.


Jean Morgan: deaconsupport@solanapres.org

Deacon Service & Support Team

Communion Preparation Preparation, set-up, and clean-up of communion for worship services and home communion. 

Ahlia Biondi, Debbie Inada: deaconsupport@solanapres.org


Home Communion Administering of communion in homes, hospitals, and care facilities to those unable to attend worship. Suzie Pegel: deaconsupport@solanapres.org 


Medical Supplies - Equipment to loan. Check-out available at Church Office receptionist desk. Call 858-509-2580 


Transportation to Sunday Worship - Cindy Wright, cindy@solanapres.org; 858-509-2587 


Memorial Receptions Baking, staffing and on-site coordination of receptions.

Julie Huebner, Kim Peterson, Cathy Pritchard: deaconsupport@solanapres.org 

Deacons of Hispanic Ministries / Diaconos del Ministerio Hispano

Serving our members and community for prayer, home communion, family crisis, financial crisis and pastoral care. 

Sirviendo a nuestros miembros y a la comunidad para oracion, comunion en hogar, crisis familiar, crisis financiera y cuidado pastoral. 


If we cannot help, we can refer. 

O le podemos ayudar la podemos referir. 


Noemi Garcia-Sanchez, 760-402-3048, deaconsupport@solanapres.org

Filomeno Jimenez, 619-381-1919; deaconsupport@solanapres.org 

Jpetul J’ernantes, 619-813-4503; deaconsupport@solanapres.org 

Cruz Saldivar, 858-847-0509 

Additional SBPC Resources

Addiction Recovery Ministries SBPC refers to NCCC. 

Facilitator: Larry Erickson, laurenceerickson@gmail.com 


FOR ADDITIONAL ASSISTANCE: 

deaconsupport@solanapres.org 

858-509-2580 x 1211