qualifications for admittance

  • Applicants must be able to read, write, speak, and understand English.
  • Applicants must be 21 or older.
  • Applicants must have a minimum of a high school diploma and both ministry and life experience. Our CPE may qualify you for credit toward a higher degree. 
  • Applicants must be comfortable learning about faith traditions that may be different from their own. Though our ministry holds a distinctly Christian worldview, we expect our students to learn about the worldview presented by other religions and be respectful of them.
  • Applicants must balance the craft of Chaplaincy within the expectation that they will function as a Chaplain in a Biblical Christian manner which shall be respectful of all people and beliefs.  
  • Applicants who wish to become an ordained chaplain with our ministry must be Biblical, Protestant, and Evangelical Christian. See membership and ordination requirements.
  • Applicants must be willing and able to minister to persons in a variety of emotional states. Chaplaincy is not door to door contact evangelism. But we do pray for God to open doors to the Gospel. 
  • Applicants must be coachable, willing to learn from their supervisors and fellow students.
  • Applicants must be coachable and interested in learning, transformation, spiritual disciplines, and making steady progress. If you are just looking for a certification and not life change, this CPE program is not for you. 
  • Applicants must be willing to work with people of different views and values without proselytizing or evangelizing. However, we learn to respond with the Gospel when the client invites us to do so. 
  • Applicants will not force the Gospel in secular settings uninvited. However, they have the right to hold to their sincerely held beliefs without having others, including employers, force their beliefs or worldview upon them. 
  • Applicants must have their own transportation to get to and from their various sites where they may earn clinical hours.
  • Applicants must be able to identify appropriate places where they may serve as an intern. Though we will assist with this, we do not guarantee placement.
  • Applicants must always adhere to the policies and procedures of any site or place of ministry in which they serve.