Hospice

People who have less than six months of life left need comfort, love, and companionship, especially right now. As a hospice volunteer, you will fulfill that role and show them and their families Christ-like love through your service. Under COVID restrictions, in-person visits are temporarily on hold. However, you will still have the opportunity to become a companion and friend to patients and help ease the process of dealing with terminal illness through writing letters or making phone calls to hospice patients.

State training is required for all volunteers. 

Volunteer Commitment: At least one hour a week for two semesters.

To get involved, contact the program directors by phone or by email at hospice@byu.edu .

Please complete this mandatory 20 minute child protection training before you begin working with this program.

My hospice friend is allowed to request that we do whatever she wants to lift her burdens. Out of everything she could choose, each week, she requests that I read the scriptures to her. This past week while visiting her, she also asked to end with a prayer. Following the prayer, she broke down in tears and said, "You don't know how much it means to me that you come to visit me. You came and lifted my burdens at the exact moment I needed it." We cried together and in that moment I realized that every sacrifice that I had made up to that point to make service a priority was worth it.

-Kinsey Owen