Run Away from any Profession that is Out to Impoverish You

Run Away from any Profession that is Out to Impoverish You

All established professions known to our world are beneficial and meant to make life better, more comfortable and enjoyable for the people of our world.

Example:

The engineering profession has been seeking ways of making life better for the populace.

1.     Automobile cars that used to come with manual operated gear levers have almost been replaced with automatic gear system, which makes people who have physical disabilities to be able to drive such automobile.

2.     Grinding machines have been provided through engineering fits to make life easier and less labourious for people especially rural dwellers.

3.     Machines that boil and pound yams – producing pounded yam at the same time has been produced to make life enjoyable for all and sundry.

Chaplaincy profession is also cut out to be of benefit to the people of our world.

1.     Can you enumerate what comfort, enjoyments and benefits chaplaincy has brought to people in Nigeria?

2.     Make a list of products chaplaincy has xxx out or services for the benefit of the people.

I in my person as a chaplain (chap. Prof. Mike-Jacobs) stand here to declare that the noble profession chaplaincy is beneficial to people of our world in whatever sectors of the economy they are found or in whatever nations of the world people sojourn.

If chaplaincy has been found to be beneficial, rewarding and profitable in developed nations of the world, and chaplaincy is considered otherwise in the continent of Africa and Nigeria in particular; the problem is not in the profession but the torch bearers of the profession in Nigeria and Africa.

These torch bearers are non-professionals but jamboree organizers, who know next to nothing about chaplaincy profession. Remember as many people as are led by blind man know their destination before their take off.

Chaplaincy profession can never impoverish you; but unknowledgeable chaplaincy leaders can impoverish and stagnate you in life, run away from them. Key into the revolutionary move and become professionally qualified and also profitable chaplain of our age.

Chap. Prof. Mike-Jacobs

Certified Chaplaincy Educator

Chaplaincy for Global understanding and Benefits

Chaplaincy for Global understanding and Benefits

Open Lecture

Preamble:

The mandate for all practicing professionals in chaplaincy is to benefit humanity in all life’s endeavours and all sector of the economy. In this open lecture, I will concern myself with detailing and show-casing of benefits chaplaincy can bring to people of our world.

1.     Chaplaincy is known and accepted to be people-oriented profession and service; all professionals in chaplaincy practice and service delivery are mandated professionally to always think or seek those things that are beneficial to the people of our world.

In the practice of chaplaincy profession, they are expected to give consideration to what will bring improvement to the lives of people and also concern themselves with whatever will make life more meaningful for the people of our world.

2.     Chaplaincy is known and accepted to be a humanizing profession and services delivery. All professionals making chaplaincy as their choice profession are expected to be humane in their dealing with all people irrespective of gender, social status, religion, tribe, nationality or sexual orientation.

In their professional practice, they are expected to treat or handle issues on their own merits, seeking to improve the lives of their numerous clients always.

Stagnation is unprofitable and unbeneficial; therefore, all practicing professionals in chaplaincy practice and service delivery must learn to be dynamic and pragmatic at all times.

3.     Chaplaincy profession is known and accepted to be multi-dimensional, multi-directional, multi-faceted and multi-faith profession and practice; all practicing professionals in chaplaincy must endeavor to bring benefitial services to all people provided they are human.

4.     Chaplaincy is known and accepted to be service-oriented profession, practice and service delivery; all practicing professionals are expected to provide or offer only beneficial services to people wherever they find themselves serving.

NB: We are all called to render beneficial services to humanity as professional chaplains. Some of the benefits chaplaincy can give humanity globally are:

1.     Bringing peaceful co-existence to the people of our world through conflict resolution and management, crisis management, conciliation services and arbitration.

2.     Pastoral care and spiritual care services to numerous people who require such care.

3.     Fostering resilience to those who have been traumatized, battered and violated in life; helping to restore then to normalcy, is a rewarding and beneficial service to humanity.

4.     Reducing the sufferings of people or helping to alleviate such sufferings is a profitable and beneficial service to humanity.

5.     Providing the needed solutions to numerous social problems, mental health problems is a profitable and beneficial service.

6.     Helping to provide the needed solutions to relationship problems and issues; bringing about interpersonal relationship between people.

7.     Helping to stem suicidal thoughts and actions by intentionally making an intervention in people’s lives, especially people who have become depressed, and feel hopelessly hopeless. Taking the best option for them is not to end their God-given lives

Chap. Prof. Mike-Jacobs

Certified Chaplaincy Educator

Capacity Development, Wealth and Job Creation of Chaplains

Capacity Development, Wealth and Job Creation of Chaplains

1.     Vocational trainings makes people to acquire the needed skills which can profit them in life.

2.     Skilled individuals who have acquired trainings and are capable of turning their fortunes aright, but remaining unfunctional waiting at home for the government to offer them employment have become disappointments and wasters of government investments.

There is therefore, the need for these people who have acquired one skill or the other to go into fruitful ventures, demonstrating functionality.

At this point, people who have acquired such skills, need to be groomed in human and materials resources management to enable them venture into profitable and sustainable ventures.

This is a call for all willing chaplains to come and put an end to poverty, unemployments and usual functionality problems. We are prepared to prepare all willing chaplains for profitable chaplaincy ventures and businesses.

Take the needed step now, call 08092601117; whatsapp -09091981944.

God bless you.

Chap. Prof. Mike-Jacobs

                                            Certified Chaplaincy Educator

How to Use One’s Vocational Skills to Venture into Business Concern

How to Use One’s Vocational Skills to Venture into Business Concern

(Human and Material Resources Management)

1.     The approach must start from the mind-set. Recording books of business must be properly maintained.

2.     As you trade and continue in business, you must always think of expansion.

3.     The profit you make must be retained to be ploughed back into the business. Then expansion will come.

4.     You must start your business with the mindset of doing business and making a success in business.

5.     You must have or develop great passion for the business, for passion drives a business.

The skills for chaplaincy, if rightly pursued can bring money and profit. The knowledge you have developed can be turned into profitable ventures. Venturing into chaplaincy business or venture; making chaplaincy a living profession.

Chap. Prof. Mike-Jacobs

Certified Chaplaincy Educator

Antidotes to Violence Being Experienced in our Nation Today

Antidotes to Violence Being Experienced in our Nation Today

1.     The fear of God.

2.     Respect for the dignity and sacredness of life.

3.     Respect for peoples’ opinions, religions and beliefs.

4.     Tolerance and accommodating others.

5.     Unfeigned love.

6.     Religious tolerance.

7.     Quick dispensation of justice.

8.     Good and responsive governance.

9.     Drug free society.

10.                        Equal opportunities for all in life irrespective of gender, race, religion, status etc.

11.                        Peaceful co-existence of all people groups.

The observance of all these listed above, will help tremendously in returning and restoring our nation back to normalcy.

Chap. Prof. Mike-Jacobs

Certified Chaplaincy Educator

Effective and Beneficial Chaplaincy Service Delivery in Nigeria and Continent of Africa.

Effective and Beneficial Chaplaincy Service Delivery in Nigeria and Continent of Africa.

For an effective and beneficial chaplaincy services delivery in Nigeria and Continent of Africa. These 8 Rs of chaplaincy must come to play.

For clarity of purpose, permit me here again to itemize the 7 Rs again with an additional one, with reasons why they must of necessity come to play in chaplaincy profession and chaplaincy practice.

1.     Restructuring Chaplaincy:

Either for lack of needed structures right from inception or deformed and polluted structures because of what was built on the original foundation; there is a need for the restructuring of chaplaincy and chaplaincy practice to enable it meet with the yearnings of the people of our nation and continent of Africa in contemporary times.

2.     Reorganizing Chaplaincy:

The present organization of chaplaincy outfits and organizations in our nation and Africa is precarious and chaotic, depicting an incoordination of highest order. This therefore calls for reorganizing of chaplaincy organizations and outfits in line with professional dictates and areas of specialization.

Health care chaplains will be concerned with people in the area of their specialization while the correctional and prison chaplains will concern themselves with their own specialized community.

3.     Reengineering Chaplaincy:

The way chaplaincy and chaplaincy practice was patterned in the past in Nigeria is nothing to be desired or write home about. There is therefore a need for a complete reengineering of chaplaincy and service delivery in our nation to enable practicing professional chaplains meet with the yearnings and aspirations of the Nigerian populace.

4.     Refocusing Chaplaincy:

Either the original focus of chaplaincy and service delivery was defective or has been shifted so badly that chaplains have been classified by people of this nation to be a set of confused, uncoordinated professionals. Thus calling for refocusing chaplaincy and service delivery in contemporary Nigeria and Africa.

5.     Representing Chaplaincy:

Chaplaincy had in the past been presented wrongly and in bad light to the general public, which gave chaplains the picture of terrors, terrorizing the society they are called to serve and even security agents by breaking through   road blocks with impunity; as they impersonate military officers, until of recent where such chaplains are beaten to a comatose level at check points for criminal acts.

There is therefore a need for us to - chaplaincy rightly and in the right light to the people of this great nation and continent. We must endeavor to re-present the right chaplaincy concept to the public.

We must endeavor to re-present the right chaplaincy to the public. We must endeavor to re-present chaplains (a new breed of chaplains) rightly to the public as professionals who interact with people with compassion and empathy not as brutes or terrors.

6.     Repositioning Chaplaincy:

The present position of chaplaincy, chaplaincy practice and service delivery in our nation Nigeria is nothing to write home about. There is therefore a need for us to reposition chaplaincy, chaplaincy practice and the service delivery in Nigeria to be able to bring benefits and dividends of chaplaincy to the people of our nation and continent of Africa.

7.     Recapitulating Chaplaincy:

Taking chaplaincy from one stage of development to another. Ensuring chaplaincy practice is not stagnated but allowed to move from one stage to another to ensure improved and effective chaplaincy service delivery.

8.     Re-invigorating Chaplaincy:

Practicing chaplains in Nigeria and Africa need reinvigoration for beneficial services to people of our great nation. There is an incessant need for chaplains in Nigeria and continent of Africa to be reinvigorated; to enable them be competent in offering the needed services at any given situation to people of our continent in contemporary times.

Chaplaincy profession as well as the practicing chaplains can become like their counterparts in developed nations of the world; if adequate precautions are taken.

As we have chosen chaplaincy to be our profession, let us into the situation surrounding the profession now and have a rethink and make the needed amendment for the needed change to take place. It is now or never!

God bless you all.

Chap. Prof. Mike-Jacobs

Certified Chaplaincy Educator

Chaplaincy Practice and Service Delivery

Chaplaincy Practice and Service Delivery

Chaplaincy practice and service delivery remains the only common grounds for all chaplains, both in the past and in the present.

Chaplaincy practice is the employment of wisdom endowed us by the Almighty God in the practical application of knowledge and skills acquired via learning, training, education and experience in addressing issues at hands with the views of proffering the needed solutions to them.

Martins of Tour, the legendary founder of chaplaincy and chaplaincy practice in meeting with the felt need of the beggar on the street on a winter day almost freezing to death in the following ways and manners:-

1.     He demonstrated or showcase the love of God in kindness to a human being like him, created by the same God. 

2.     He practiced sharing, for he was not told he had another cape anywhere; yet he parted with a half of the cape he had, securing the life of both the beggar and his own life from winter cold or from freezing.

3.     He practiced the preservation of God given lives in every situation and matter what the situation presents.

4.     He rendered beneficial service to the beggar not just charity.

The Master Chaplain, also showcase chaplaincy practice and service delivery in the steady of the Good Samaritan He gave as an illustration (Luke 10:29-37):

1.     The Pharisee that passed by the wounded man without any consideration for him in his situation and pool of blood represents the law and authority which is insufficient to meet with the felt need of humanity.

2.     The Levite that passed by the wounded man without any consideration for him represent the religious bigots of the day and the insufficiency of religion to take adequate care of people who are not known members of this particular congregation.

3.     Presenting and showcasing the Good Samaritan, who was a multi-faith, interfaith personality, meeting with the felt needs of the wounded man by taking him to  a care-giver, providing and paying for his care and recovery with the promise of coming back to offset whatever was incurred after he had left.

This is beyond a charitable giving but a complete wholesome service delivery that affect the total man. What all chaplains are called unto is beneficial interfaith and multifaith service delivery in a pluralistic setting.

Let us all be alive to our duties and responsibilities; charitable giving cannot take the place of detailed practice and service delivery.

Chap. Prof. Mike-Jacobs

Certified Chaplaincy Educator