My Career Change To Chaplaincy

My Career Change Journey
Led Me To San Diego

Serving as a parish pastor for nearly 30 years before changing career directions to chaplaincy, my present ministry career assignment is serving as Director of Spiritual Care at LightBridge Hospice in San Diego, CA.

And now through this website, my ministry has expanded even wider in what I hope will be a new career as an internet chaplain!

Duties Of A Chaplain

My-career-change-with-purpose journey has been very fulfilling and rewarding. What does a hospice chaplain do?

My duties as a chaplain include various pastoral care interventions:

• I help families face the reality of death, providing pastoral care to their loved one as well as to them.
• And as a health care chaplain I offer encouragement to medical personnel as well as providing a spiritual presence at the end-of-life for their dying patients.
• I provide spiritual resources to grieving families who need pastoral care and bereavement resources.
• I also provide spiritual support to skilled nursing facilities to lift employee morale and to offer bereavement counseling to professional medical staff.
• And finally, presiding at funerals and memorial services for patients who have died rounds out the duties of a chaplain, helping people say goodbye to their loved ones.

What In the Chaplain World Is CPE?

Even thought I found great fulfillment as a hospital chaplain intern, the position provided no income.

I was still working for ReachOne Internet Services and my wife was primary grades principal of Community Christian Academy in Lacey, WA.

We decided that for my hospital chaplain career to become reality, a move to San Diego, California would be in our best interests.

Onward and Upward In My Career Change To Chaplaincy

When a stipend position opened in San Diego, CA I took 3 more units, with each unit of Clinical Pastoral Education comprised of 400 hours of clinical on-the-job training.

Serving my clinical residency at Polinsky Children's Center, I do so through the Center for Urban Ministry, a San Diego based chaplain training program through Episcopal Community Service of San Diego.

I have completed my chaplaincy career requirements and became a Board Certified Chaplain by the Association of Professional Chaplains in the Spring of 2005.

Yes, my-change-career-with-purpose journey has now led me into a what promises to be a very fulfilling ministry as an internet chaplain, after having served as a parish pastor for 30 years.

In my personal career change, I am following my life passion and fulfilling my God-given dream as an internet chaplain --using the internet to empower people to be all that God wants them to be!

What in the World, for God's Sake, Is An Internet Chaplain?

Through this unique ministry website I will offer practical career change tools, share information about what makes a career with purpose, challenge your career change aspirations, and perhaps even provide pastoral care, because that's what chaplains do.

My career change to chaplaincy has resulted in a chaplain job as a hospice chaplain, a ministry that is very rewarding. But through the ministry of chaplaincy focused websites, I can be more than a hospital chaplain or hospice chaplain, I can be an internet chaplain!

Now that really is "expanding the ministry!" Hopefully, you too will join me in the internet ministry of your own.

If you want to help cover the costs of maintaining this Change-Career-With-Purpose internet ministry, you can make a donation to do so.

Your support will help educate pastors facing pastor burnout, helping them reframe their concept of leaving ministry to that of expanding ministry.

Yes, indeed! My career change to chaplaincy has given me great fulfillment and joy!