Faith with dementia
Pilgrim’s Friend is often asked if it is possible for someone with dementia to come to
faith, and the answer is yes, it is.
Personal accounts by family members show
this to be true. A daughter told how her mother, a non-Christian, whose inhibitions were
slipping and who could be socially embarrassing, decided that she was going to come to church one Sunday. She was remarkably
quiet, but said she would like to go again the
following week. On that Sunday she went to
the front and said how she’d heard the message
the previous week and had given her heart to
Jesus. What a reminder that it is the Holy
Spirit who
‘convicts of righteousness’, and speaks to the heart.