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Colleen Narbone left her life as a paralegal after getting a call, but it was not on her cell phone.
These days she can be found seeing to the spiritual needs of patients and staff at Adventist La Grange Memorial Hospital. Narbone stepped in to fill the shoes of hospital chaplain Garry Losey, a U.S. Army Reservist who was deployed to northern Iraq to support the troops of the 90th Sustainment Brigade.
Narbone was a paralegal from 1998 to 2004 in California and Chicago when that call came.
“I was always interested in the ministry,” she said. “I always volunteered for those things in my church and community and found that to be the most life giving. Through doing research in my 20s I was able to find a program that allowed me to study what I felt I was called to be.”
She then earned her master’s degree in pastoral counseling at Loyola University in 2007. That, she said, was quite a leap.
“Not a lot of people go to college wanting to be a chaplain.”
Narbone said she finds great satisfaction in her role as a chaplain.
“Just being aware the presence of God is with me,” she said. “I’m always amazed at the strength of the patients and the staff, the dedication to caring for the whole person, body mind and spirit. That’s why chaplains are integrated in to the care at La Grange Adventist Memorial Hospital.
“The courage, the hope, the love I see from the patients, doctors and those who care for them — I think it’s a privilege to be in the midst of that with them.”
Notable
Grew up all over the country as the daughter of a career Navy officer.
& quotable
“(Writer and minister) Frederick Buechner said a vocation is where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet,” Narbone said. “We have many vocations. As a Christian, my hope and prayer is I always listen to where God is calling me.”
Philosophy
“A strong sense of faith and family is my foundation.”
Favorites
FOOD Spicy foods
MUSIC Classical and jazz
HOBBIES Reading, running
Colleen Narbone left her life as a paralegal after getting a call, but it was not on her cell phone.
These days she can be found seeing to the spiritual needs of patients and staff at Adventist La Grange Memorial Hospital. Narbone stepped in to fill the shoes of hospital chaplain Garry Losey, a U.S. Army Reservist who was deployed to northern Iraq to support the troops of the 90th Sustainment Brigade.
Narbone was a paralegal from 1998 to 2004 in California and Chicago when that call came.
“I was always interested in the ministry,” she said. “I always volunteered for those things in my church and community and found that to be the most life giving. Through doing research in my 20s I was able to find a program that allowed me to study what I felt I was called to be.”
She then earned her master’s degree in pastoral counseling at Loyola University in 2007. That, she said, was quite a leap.
“Not a lot of people go to college wanting to be a chaplain.”
Narbone said she finds great satisfaction in her role as a chaplain.
“Just being aware the presence of God is with me,” she said. “I’m always amazed at the strength of the patients and the staff, the dedication to caring for the whole person, body mind and spirit. That’s why chaplains are integrated in to the care at La Grange Adventist Memorial Hospital.
“The courage, the hope, the love I see from the patients, doctors and those who care for them — I think it’s a privilege to be in the midst of that with them.”
Notable
Grew up all over the country as the daughter of a career Navy officer.
& quotable
“(Writer and minister) Frederick Buechner said a vocation is where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet,” Narbone said. “We have many vocations. As a Christian, my hope and prayer is I always listen to where God is calling me.”
Philosophy
“A strong sense of faith and family is my foundation.”
Favorites
FOOD Spicy foods
MUSIC Classical and jazz
HOBBIES Reading, running
