The Heart of a Chaplain: Exploring Essentials for Ministry

by Jim Browning, Jim Spivey

Chaplains today are on the cutting-edge of delivering effective ministry with rapidly expanding opportunities. Chaplains fulfill a sacred calling to accompany and provide professional support and spiritual nurture for everyone in their distinctive secular communities, which authorize and hold them accountable. This ministry requires specialized knowledge, competencies, and initiative to meet a broad range of human needs. With 37 contributors representing 914 years of chaplaincy experience, The Heart of a Chaplain examines several essential questions; highlights the need for competency, endorsement, and continual training; explores six major types of chaplaincy; offers a mentoring tool in the appendix; and, provides an extensive resource section. The “memorable moments” will leave you laughing or crying with joy.

370 pages, Paperback

Published June 7, 2022

Reviews

[Jeff Bobin · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is both a practical guild on the role of the chaplain and many stories of how that work makes a difference in peoples lives. This includes the people working in these different organization as well as those they serve.

Written by two former life-long chaplains who now teach in seminary they bring to life the work and the responsibility that goes along with it. They weave excellent stories of others that have served and the challenges and opportunities they go through.

If you are thinking of becoming a chaplain, either full or part-time and even if volunteering this is worth the read for the thinking it provokes.

[Caleb McCary · Rating 4 out of 5]

Excellent and wide-ranging resource. Leans very heavily on personal anecdotes so if you want to read a lot of personal examples of chaplaincy ministry, this will be right up your alley.