Network is your Net-worth as Chaplains

Beloved professional chaplains, chaplaincy profession is a profession that gives you all the opportunities in networking with professional clergies, interdisciplinary professionals, interprofessional team, professional colleagues, senior colleagues and supervisors in the practice of professional chaplaincy and service delivery.

Chaplaincy practice gives chaplains the opportunity in networking with others to provide needed care and services or providing solutions to knotty problems bedeviling people in our various communities and societies where we operate.

In this kind of professional networking, professional chaplains are able to showcase their net-worth. Professional chaplains should be able to leverage on the opportunity they have in networking with other professionals who could shape people’s attitudes and professional practices.

Chaplaincy, its practice and service delivery is not only about trainings, but also practical activities to better the lots of people the practioners are called to serve, give attention to and listen to in their professional life.

Professional chaplains who have the calling and responsibility to provide needed solutions to problems other’s are facing in network with other professionals, build good relationship with people to enable them leverage on people for advancement.

While I am advocating networking with others (colleagues, other professionals) and building good relationship with people for effective discharge of chaplaincy practice and service delivery.

It is of important and beneficial for chaplains to learn to network with professional counterparts nationally, internationally and globally for global best practice and service delivery.

Chaplains that can network with other professionals in different fields of endeavor must to be adequately trained and able to discharge competently with skills, proving the efficacy and effectiveness of their choice profession in a way that will convince other professionals that chaplaincy is worthwhile/accepting/embracing.

While quality professional education is of paramount important in chaplaincy, especially the earning of professional chaplaincy degree which makes chaplains credential certified professionals and they may have other credits; chaplains net-worth actually comes from how competently they offer chaplaincy care and services in meeting with people’s need and how they leverage on the relationship they have built and advance their practice and profession.

We need to prove to other professionals we network with that chaplaincy is a needed profession, cut across other professions to meet the wholistic need of humans for wholistic health and wellbeing.

We need to show them our net-worth by showcasing the effectiveness and efficacy of our profession through best practice in bringing healing and wholesomeness to people in whatever situation they found themselves.

Our commitment to establishing high standard professional chaplaincy practice and service delivery requires that we all practice chaplaincy professionally and with passion too.

We are expected to innovatively and creatively go about our practices in solving problems. The need for networking comes from our understanding that people are endowed with different innovations and creativities, which makes networking profitable and also desirable.

As practicing professional chaplains, network with those in your communities if you are likely to have any, network with those in your state if there are such professionals, at your regional levels too, if there are any and also at the national level for effective and efficient service delivery per excellence.

Chap. Prof. David Mike