Philippine Baptist Theological Seminary (www.pbts.net.ph) will start its 2017/18 academic year starting June 13th. Looking forward to it, as I will be teaching three courses I love. I will be teaching Cultural Anthropology again. This will be for the M.Div. program. I will be using the book I wrote, "Ministry in Diversity," as the main …
Okay, this presentation is more pastoral care than missions. However, it takes its inspiration from one of the chapters of my book, Theo-Storying.
It has been a slow process. People keep asking when it will be done. Principles of Clinical Pastoral Care in the Hospital and the Community. Vol. 1 by Robert H. Munson and Celia P. Munson. 2016. I serve as the administrator of a counseling center in the Philippines, and my wife Celia is a Clinical …
I did a short article on Bukal Life Care blogsite regarding the controversy among some on whether one should use the term "pastoral care" or "spiritual care." I do have strong reasons for preferring pastoral over spiritual, and list some here. I did not go into theological reasons, but I suppose what I have is …
As I noted before, I am involved in missions in the Philippines. I teach missions, but I also am the administrator of a pastoral care and counseling center, and I am the registrar for a pastoral counseling certification organization. The goals of missions and pastoral care are often quite different so I have wrestled with …
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I am a Evangelical Christian Missionary serving in the Philippines. I also serve as an administrator of a pastoral care center (www.bukallifecare.org) and serve as the registrar for a certification program for clinical pastoral education. There are at least three big concerns that seem to come up in the realm of pastoral care that can …
As I have said before, one of my jobs in missions is administrator of a pastoral care center. So I have always been interested in the correlation, compatibility, and conflict between missions and counseling. This presentation utilizes the 7 benchmarks for pastoral diagnosis established by Paul Pruyser back in 1963. However, we put them in …
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"From the standpoint of faith, genuine caring is grounded in affirming others as persons of sacred worth, loved by God and destined for a future of God's making. The shape of our caring is anticipated in the life and ministry of Jesus Christ. Caring means serving God's desire and design for the other, helping the …