My God-Given Mandate on Chaplaincy Profession and Practice

My God-Given Mandate on Chaplaincy Profession and Practice

Mandate is defined by the dictionary as:-

1.     A charge or a command from a senior officer to the other, ordering him/her on how to act.

2.     A right given to someone to act on the behalf of another.

3.     The commissioning of somebody to do something in life.

4.     The authority to do something.

5.     An official order given to someone to perform a particular task.

My God-given mandate on chaplaincy profession and practice remains:-

1.     Taking chaplaincy education to the limelight in societies of our world.

2.     Positive orientation on chaplaincy practice.

3.     Making actual professional chaplaincy practice lucrative and desired by practicing chaplains in the continent of Africa.

4.     As a change maker, bringing about positive changes and beneficial ones to chaplaincy practice.

5.     Bringing about attitudinal and behavioural changes in the generality of people as chaplaincy is practice in the developed world.

6.     Ensuring there is the needed sanity in chaplaincy practice and profession in our world.

7.     Developing careers, creating job opportunities for professional chaplains in all aspects of human endeavours.

8.     Promoting chaplaincy practice and profession in the continent of Africa.

9.     Making chaplaincy practice and profession address problems of people professionally and proffer the needed solutions to such problems.

10.                        Ensuring the functionalities of all trained chaplains by developing career chaplains who will work every sector of the economy which is in commensurate with their educational standards, level of training, skill acquired etc.

11.                        Ensuring that the pluralistic nature of chaplaincy profession and service delivery is uphold at all times by all chaplains.

12.                        Making sure that chaplaincy profession and practice does not lose her interfaith status becoming parochial and narrow minded or restricted to the services of people of a particular religion, creed and denomination.

13.                        Ensuring that the needed spiritual care, covering and oversight is provided by professional practicing chaplains in the continent of Africa.

14.                        Working assiduously to see that chaplaincy profession is professionalized and practiced in the professional manner by chaplains in the continent of Africa.

15.                        Setting a good standard of chaplaincy practice and code of ethics for chaplains in the continent of Africa.

My God-given mandate therefore is God’s commission and assignment or task that He has given to me to accomplish in chaplaincy profession and service delivery, especially, in the continent of Africa. May the good Lord grant me the grace to accomplish this mandate in Jesus Name! Amen.

Chap. Prof. David Mike

Certified Chaplaincy Educator