Chaplaincy Education

Just as secular education is used to prepared people as capable workers and manpower offering services to humanity at various levels they occupy in their various societies and workplaces; chaplaincy education in turn also is used to prepare chaplains who are expected to provide adequate and beneficial chaplaincy services to people at various levels they occupy in societies where they work.

Just as there are primary school teachers all over the world, with trainings and qualifications appropriate for the lowest level of human beings, there are also chaplains whose training and educational qualifications cannot take them beyond the people at the low level of human strata; those chaplains are classified as low level manpower and service providers with some limitations, inclusive of:

a.     Lay chaplains.

b.     Chaplains with diploma or diplomate certificates.

c.      Non-professional chaplains who are expected to be under qualified professional chaplains.

Just as there are secondary school teachers with appropriate trainings and qualifications to provide needed teaching and instruction to secondary school students; there are also chaplains who have been prepared and trained to provide services to middle class in the society.

The said teachers may be professionally qualified and registered professional teachers but are limited in exposure and experience which make their services to be limited to the secondary school level of education.

Chaplains who have been prepared to offer services to people of middle class are expected to have from first degree theological education with chaplaincy concentration or masters or doctoral degrees in Divinity with chaplaincy concentration. These chaplains are called middle manpower or workers.

Just as there are professional teachers who by their educational qualifications and trainings are made to offer teaching services to people in tertiary institutions, there are also professional chaplains who by their educational qualifications and trainings as well as professional qualifications, competencies and skills make them suitable for providing chaplaincy services to higher class individuals.

I wish to submit here that only professional chaplains who have undergone professional chaplaincy training and education and have been certified to practice chaplaincy in both public and private domains with some years of experiences are best suited for professional chaplaincy services provision in a higher level.

There are chaplains whose responsibilities and qualifications limited the primary level service provision, while there are some who by their trainings and competencies are limited to the secondary level of service provision while finally, there are those whose trainings, education, specialization and professional competencies make them best suited to provide specialized chaplaincy services at a higher level of chaplaincy service provision.

“All animals are equal but some are more equal than others.”

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Chap. David Mike-Jacobs CPC, CPST, CCET

Professor of Anthropology

6^th Jan, AD2022