APCIN’s Status and Positions

APCIN’s Status and Positions

 

Various contributions of member chaplains any time there is an opportunity to air their views, makes it obligatory for me to want to explain APCIN’s status, position and stand for the benefit of us all.

 

Right from the inception, when APCIN was in the embryo and the drawing board yet unborn; APCIN was designed to be purely a professional chaplaincy association body, bringing together chaplains from various chaplaincy organization and institutions for the purpose of practicing chaplaincy professionally in both public and private domain in Nigeria and by extension to the continent of Africa.

 

As a purely professional body and an association, APCIN is designed to be saddled with certification of member chaplains for professional practice. APCIN is however not designed to be a training body or institution, as there are already numerous chaplaincy organizations training their member chaplains.

 

To forestall unwarranted conflict, APCIN is designed to be like the following professional associations and societies, who recruit members from various universities and schools:-

 

1.    Nigeria Bar Association.

2.    Nigeria Medical and Dental Association.

3.    Nigeria Society of Pharmacists.

4.    Nigeria Society of Engineers.

5.    Nigeria Institute of Surveyors.

6.    Institute of Chartered Accountant of Nigeria.

 

APCIN’s disposition and posture is to give member associate organizations to continue with training and education of chaplains but will be required to register with APCIN for the needed recognition.

 

APCIN is also designed to take responsibility for continue education and training of member chaplains, which is called in contemporary time as continuous professional development, which makes it mandatory for APCIN to organize seminars, symposia and conferences for members and even for non-members from time to time.

 

I hope with this explanation, we will not anyone make APCIN to do what it was not designed to do, so as not to run into trouble or conflict.

 

Chap. Prof. Mike-Jacobs

Certified Chaplaincy Educator

13^th Sept. 2020