Several of our members were able to attend the CPECFI Convention on November 27, 2025. CPECFI is associated with the Asia Association of Clinical Pastoral Education, a sibling organization as far as certification and accreditation of the clinical pastoral movement in the Philippines. Members of CPSP-Philippines have received training through AACPE, and we also have members who are dual-certified. We appreciate the invite to participate in this conference.

Upcoming Activities

Jethro Guidance Center

Bukal Life Care

Bukal Life Care has a new batch starting Feb 3 (through April 24). This would be an Intensive unit, and Summer Intensive starting in early or mid-April.

The Chaplains Office

TCO will start an extended CPE in Bucaue in July 2026, with orientation in June. Let us know if you need more information.

As we are a network of training centers, we are not always the best in updating what is going on around CPSP-Philippines. Here are few items worthy of note:

1. Chaplain Elvin Salarda has been hold a CPE course in Thailand. One trainee from the Thailand Course will be coming up for a certification board in the next few days.

2. Bukal Life Care now has a satellite group at Saint Louis University. This group is led by Chaplains Bing Maximo and Wendy Eustaquio. Both of them also serve as SLU faculty. At a future time it is expected/hoped that the program at SLU would be an independent accredited training center.

Meeting with Chaplain Enjang of Sacred Heart Medical Center at Saint Louis University when the local program was still in the planning. (The first batch officially started on September 16)

3. CPSP-Philippines in Africa?

Ninkarb Seth Joejoe, a certified clinical chaplain with CPSP-Philippines, and part of the Supervisor-in-Training program under Supervisor Lyn Montecastro, has set up a counseling and CPE center in his home country of Ghana. We are working with him to establish this work. We wish him well in this endeavor.

4. We have updated our webpage for training centers based on recent changes. Feel free to check it out.

Ptr. Ephraim Guerrero, a long-time member of CPSP-Philippines and Jethro Guidance Center has recently passed on. We share hope and sorrow mixed with friends, family, colleagues and churchmates.

Congratulations to those who passed the Clinical Chaplaincy board on August 15, 2025. They are:

Chaplain Sallie “Bing” Maximo, BCCC

Chaplain Wendy Eustaquio, BCCC

Chaplain Solomon Aggrey, BCCC

Chaplain Jeno Bautista, BCCC

All four trained at Bukal Life Care and Counseling Center. Their board members were:

Diplomate Paul Tabon

Diplomate Larry Gusto

Diplomate Vic Navarro

With Supervisors Vo and Crista, and Board Members Paul, Larry, and Vic (the later two online).

Guest Presenters include:

Dr. Doug Dickens, CPSP Diplomate. He is planning to speak on Spiritual Assessment.

Dr. Paul Armand Javines. He is a retired healthcare chaplain, and professor. He is planning to speak on comparing and contrasting roles of chaplaincy in the US and Philippines.

Congratulations to Fhey Kindipan-Coyoy in passing her board for Pastoral Counsellor and Clinical Chaplain. It was held at Bukal Life Care in Baguio City on March 28, 2025. The board was attended by her Supervisor, Chaplain Bo Canoy, and the board members: Dr. Paul Tabon, Dr. Lyn Montecastro, and Dr. Vic Navarro.

Union Theological Seminary Intensive Summer CPE reunion held during the convocation week Jan 19-24, 2025. Batches 2022 – 2024 were represented with Chap Efren Carreon (SIT cand.), Rev Petz Guerrero, Doc Larry and Prof Carmel Villar serving as Facilitators/Supervisors.

Registration contact or QR Code to follow.

And below is another one. We don’t have the details on this one.

It is a brand new year. We get a lot of questions regarding CPE programs that are going on. We try to be of help, but we don’t always know all of the activities of the various groups. With that in mind, you are certainly welcome to contact us on our Contact Us page. However, I do suggest you contact some of the various training centers and find out what they are doing.

Just click on the Training Centers page by CLICKING HERE. It gives our various training centers and points of contact.