Fall Updates

We don’t really have a lot new right now. This is not because things are not happening, but because a lot of the training centers are busy “doing their thing.” Our active groups are as follows:

-Bukal Life Care—- Baguio City. Community and Hospital Chaplaincy

-Glocal Community— Baguio City. Community and Police Chaplaincy

-The Chaplain’s Office— Bocaue. Hospital and Marketplace Chaplaincy

-SATS— Quezon City. Hospital Chaplaincy

-Jethro Guidance Center. Manila/Dasmarinas, Cavite. Community and Hospital Chaplaincy

-Clinical Pastoral and Spiritual Care Training Center— Iloilo City. Hospital Chaplaincy

-Adventist Medical Center— Iligan City. Hospital Chaplaincy

-SPUC CPE Center— Cagayan de Oro. Community Chaplaincy

Some operate year-around (Such as Bukal Life Care and The Chaplain’s Office). Others have on seasons and off seasons. Please either check with them directly or go to the CONTACT US page on this website.

January 2025 we will have our annual board meeting.

March 2025 we (some of us) will attend the CPSP Plenary gathering in Orlando, FL (USA)

June or July 2025 we will have our Centenary celebration (for CPE). More to follow on this one.

Newly Certified Members

From Left to Right: Chaplain Jezza Pingo, Dr. Paul Tabon, Dr. Vic Navarro (on screen), Chaplain Vo Canoy, Chaplain Celia Munson, and Dr. Jun Vestidas

July 31, 2024, CPSP-Philippines held a certification board at Bukal Life Care in Baguio City, Philippines. We would like to congratulate Dr. Jun Vestidas and Ms. Jezza Pingo for passing their respective boards. The board is for a dual certification:

-Board Certified Pastoral Counselor (BCPC)

-Board Certified Clinical Chaplain (BCCC)

The members of the certifying board were Diplomates Paul Tabon (President of CPSP-Philippines), Celia Munson, and Vic Navarro (who joined online). Also participating was Diplomate Vo Canoy, who served as their endorser.

Both Chaplain Jun and Chaplain Jezza have been invited to join our Supervisor-in-Training (SIT) program at Bukal Life Care. Upon completion of the SIT program, the two of them may seek a certification board for Diplomate In Pastoral Supervision.

Corporate Chaplaincy Sub-Specialty

We are in the process of developing sub-specialty “fellowships” in clinical chaplaincy. One that is up and running is “Corporate Chaplaincy.” Sometimes the term “Marketplace Chaplaincy” is also used. Chaplain Renato Eustaquio, DPS serves as a corporate chaplain and is authorized to supervise those who are seeking to be a chaplain in that setting. Chaplain Renato serves in Bocaue, Bulacan. Contact us by our contact page if you have questions.

Springtime 2024 News

Upcoming CPT at Union Theological Seminary.

CPT at BUKAL LIFE CARE. We will start our “Summer Intensive” in late May. The program will be mixed format with a combination of Hospital and Community Chaplaincy. Contact us at bukallife@gmail.com for more information.

CPT at Central Philippines University. This was announced before, but as a reminder…

Come join the Clinical Pastoral Education Training (CPET) on July 1 to August 15,2024 (7wks) at the College of Theology, CPU, Jaro, Iloilo City.

—You may choose to have the training in Bacolod City next year on Oct. 7 to Nov. 22 (7wks) 2025.

CPSP Plenary

Dr. Bob and Diplomate Celia Munson were able to attend the CPSP Plenary gathering, held in Atlanta, Georgia, March 17-20. They were able to give a presentation at the gathering, ” The History of the Clinical Pastoral Movement in the Philippines.” It was well received and the event was a valuable time of learning and building relationships.

February Updates at CPSP-PH

  1. CPE class graduation at the North Philippine Union Conference in Pasay City on January 30, 2023. Chaplain Elvin Salarda was the supervisor. Dr. Paul Tabon, President of CPSP-Philippines was able to join this event.

2. Bukal Life Care (Baguio) and The Chaplains Office (Bocaue) are both holding active programs right now. Glocal Community (Baguio) has been promoting Community Chaplaincy work.

Community Chaplaincy of Glocal Community with Chaplain Paul Tabon

3. CPSP Plenary is coming up in March 17-20 in Atlanta, GA (USA). Doc Bob and Chaplain Celia will represent CPSP-PH there. They will be giving a pre-conference presentation on The History of CPE in the Philippines.

4. Summer CPE is coming up soon with programs at Philippine Baptist Theological Seminary, Union Theological Seminary, and Central Philippine University among them. More info will be coming on these and more.

News from CPSP

As our name implies, we are a daughter organization of CPSP (College of Pastoral Supervision and Psychotherapy). Here are a couple of bits of news of CPSP.

#1. CPSP will be holding its annual plenary March 17-21, 2024. It will be held in Atlanta, GA, and representatives of CPSP-PH will be there, and have been asked to give a report at the event.

#2. CPSP has recently joined in a collaborative initiative between itself and Health Care Chaplaincy Network/Spiritual Care Association (HCCN/SCA). They are exploring ways to collaborate for the good of clinical pastoral training and clinical chaplaincy. (In recent months, we have been in conversation with AACPE, the first CPE/T organization in the Philippines. We also hope to find ways to collaborate in a similar manner in the Philippines.)

#3. CPSP now has a couple of improved ways to communicate with its members and others. One is their updated website (https://cpsp.life/). The other is their new electronic journal “Recovery of Soul.” It has not come out yet, but information on it is available at: https://cpsp.life/invitation-to-contribute-to-cpsps-recovery-of-soul-digital-magazine/

October 2023 Updates from Three Centers

Davao. Chaplain Elvin Salarda with his trainees from Indonesia, Myanmar, Vietnam, Sri Lanka and Philippines. They just started face to face, continue online, and complete in February.
Bocaue, Bulacan. Chaplain Renato and The Chaplains Office partnering with International Christian Academy in pastoral care for students, faculty and staff.
Cebu City. Chaplain Lyn Montecastro with her training batch ministering at Operation Second Chance, with CICL.