Auxiliary Fundraiser Dinner with The GillyGirls Band!
Sierra View Homes Auxiliary Fundraiser is right around the corner! Don’t miss out on an evening of fun, food, and live music featuring the GillyGirls on Saturday, September 28. Tickets are available now! Call our office at (559)638-9226 or come by our administration office at 1155 E. Springfield Ave. in Reedley to purchase your tickets. All proceeds benefit the Sierra View Homes community. We can’t wait to see you there!
Chaplain’s Corner: The Sorrow of God
“It is said of God that no one can behold his face and live. I always thought this meant that no one could see his splendor and live. A friend said perhaps it means that no one could see his sorrow and live. Or perhaps his sorrow is his splendor.” This quote by Nicholas Wolterstorff has come back to me as news reports have come out of Israel, each overwhelming and unimaginable in their horror. Images of mourning parents and dust-covered crying children. A fragile peace decimated in a matter of days in one of the most significant holy places on earth. So many innocent lives changed forever on account…
Chaplain’s Corner: God Speaks
Our Sierra View Bible Study has recently started a study of the book of Hebrews. It is a book that is rarely studied in its entirety. Perhaps this is because it is so dense, with so many references to other Old Testament texts. Perhaps it is because we know so little about its author or intended audience. Or perhaps it is because after the Gospels and Paul’s letters, our attention starts to wane a bit. The first four verses of Hebrews waste no time beginning with royal fanfare. In the original Hebrew, those four verses are one long sentence, beginning with an affirmation that God speaks. We know God, not…
Chaplain’s Corner: Blessed are the Seekers
Nothing feels better than being certain about something. In our day-to-day lives we are always looking for “clear cut” and “sure things.” It makes sense then that we would seek the same things in our spiritual lives. To our chagrin, certainty is elusive in the realm of the spiritual. Sometimes our pursuit of certainty gets us into trouble. We use it as a measure of achievement, either feeling guilty about not reaching a certain level of it, or feeling judgmental over those with reservations or doubts. There were certainly people in Jesus’ day who were certain about their faith, but those weren’t the ones Jesus called to walk alongside him.…
Chaplain’s Corner: Flipping the Script
For one week every July I leave my chaplain/pastor routine in the Valley for an entirely different experience: Camp Director for our 3rd-12th graders at Camp Keola, situated at 7500 feet at Huntington Lake. In addition to swimming, singing and s’mores, it was a week of fellowship and faith formation shaped around the theme of: “Flipping the Script.” Jesus was not the Messiah the world was anticipating. He was frustratingly non-compliant with the expectations of the world, which values strength over vulnerability, ambition over compassion, accumulation over generosity and the comfort of the individual over the flourishing of the community. Jesus flipped the script on every one of these expectations.…
An URGENT Letter from Sierra View’s CEO
Dear Sierra View Homes Family, We are writing to inform you of a critical need for our residents. The double-digit inflation of food, medical supplies and equipment is driving up the cost of caring for residents, and many of our senior residents with fixed incomes are struggling to purchase basic necessities like food and medication while paying their rent. Sierra View Homes is a not-for-profit ministry. Since our founding in 1960, our mission has always been to provide an affordable place for seniors to receive love and care. While we make sound financial decisions for our organization, all of our decisions are made with our God-honoring mission in mind. Over…
Chaplain’s Corner: Beauty in Suffering
When we experience hardship and tribulation in life our tendency is to immediately question things. Question what we might have done wrong to deserve such hardship, question how a good God could allow us to experience such tribulation in the first place, question whether the universe bends towards darkness and not towards light. Questions like these, of course, assume that our well-being is a priority over all else in the universe. It is not unreasonable that we think like this. After all, Psalm 8 tells us that we are “made a little lower than the angels and crowned with glory and honor” (v5). But then again, the first three verses…
Chaplain’s Corner: Now What?
Acts 1 tells us that for 40 days after his resurrection, Jesus appeared to his disciples and spoke about the Kingdom of God. It is hard to fathom the relief and joy the disciples experienced, after presuming him forever dead to them. And yet, that feeling of comfort and security was short-lived. Jesus’ time on earth was done and the disciples would have to again return to the question that dominated in their minds: “Now what?” We all go through “Now what?” phases of our lives. For years or perhaps even decades we can coast on the comfort of routine and normalcy. Everything in its right place, just the way…
Chaplain’s Corner: Advent – Actively Waiting
I love the hymn ‘O Come, O Come Emmanuel.’ It is a haunting tune that reminds us to stay and sit a while in the tension of advent before the celebration of the arrival of the Christ child. Advent (Latin for ‘coming’) is commemorated the four weeks before Christmas. It is a good reminder that God’s people spent years and years longing and waiting for a Messiah as they lived under oppressive empires, sometimes exiled from their homeland. The first words of the hymn cry out: O come, O come, Emmanuel, And ransom captive Israel, That mourns in lonely exile here, Until the Son of God appear. It is no…
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Infographic: Sierra View Homes Satisfaction Survey Results
Sierra View Homes Retirement Community sent out our resident satisfaction surveys during the summer. The questionnaire was either completed by mail or by individual interview. Of course, we are looking for a “report card” to see how we measure up, but we are also trying to understand if some areas need to be worked on. We are pleased to report that our scores were high for each of the service lines! Certainly we want to improve all the time. Of the questions, we pulled from the ones that capture the resident’s full impression of our services. Full details may be found in the office, but we would like to summarize here for…
