Healing Rays of Righteousness

My name is Ray Geigley and I am enjoying retirement as pastor and chaplain.  I was ordained a Mennonite pastor in June 1966,  and pastored four different congregations until May 1993.  During this time I graduated from Goshen Biblical Seminary, Goshen, IN, and also completed Clinical Pastoral Education at Philhaven Hospital, Lebanon, PA.

In June, 1993, I began serving as a chaplain and Director of Pastoral Care at Menno Haven Retirement Community, Chambersburg, PA, until retirement in October 2013.  I also served on the Brook Land Board of Directors for 18 years, and as Board Chair for 9 of those years.  Brook Lane is a multi-site facility providing a continuum of both inpatient and outpatient mental health services, and various related educational and training opportunities for the community.

I graduated from Lancaster Mennonite School 1957, and married my classmate, Dorothy Shue, two years later.  We were blessed with 1 son and 3 daughters.  Our son died suddenly at age 23 with a heart attack while playing soccer.  This was a life crisis that dramatically changed our family and my relationship with God and significantly reshaped my pastoral ministry.

It is my hope and prayer that in writing this blog I may in some measure refresh and encourage my readers by sharing from my experiences as a father, pastor and chaplain, those understandings from biblical scriptures that I have found to be helpful in deepening my relationship with Jesus, “the sun of righteousness” – and which continue to lead and nourish me toward a daily healing of mind,  body, spirit, and enables me to sleep well and awake each morning, ready to “go  out and frolic like well-fed calves.”