November 14. CPE Commissioning Service
November 22. Completion of CPE Full Unit
November 23. Pastoral Care Training Seminar. Puguis, La Trinidad
December 9. Conflict Resolution Training. Maria Aurora, Aurora Province
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January Short-course
Individual Counseling course will be held this January (2020) at Philippine Baptist Theological Seminary. Dr. Charles Henderson will be leading this course from January 13-24. Sign up soon while there is still time.
Celebration at the Jail
At the La Trinidad Jail was the celebration of National Correctional Consciousness Week with our group, among others, honored for our participation in the care of PDLs (Persons Deprived of Liberty). This was held on October 25, 2019. We are thankful that Chaplains Lyn Montecastro and Shoneem Ejaz were able to attend and represent the team there.
Mid-October Updates
Ongoing: Two CPE groups are continuing through this month into next. One group with 5 trainees, and one with 7.
Oct 15. Start of PBTS PC courses. We are involved in facilitating three (Intro to PC&C, Interpersonal Relationships, and Clinical Pastoral Orientation). The 3rd one, CPO, can be taken as a non-PBTS student. CPO group is on Wednesdays and Fridays– 1pm – 2:30pm
Oct 24. CPSP-Philippines Cert board in Manila.
Oct 26. Bukal BOT Board Meeting
Nov 14. CPE Commissioning Service
CPE Commissioning July 26, 2019
July 26, 2019 we held CPE Commissioning for our 9 trainees at Bukal Life Care (with Diplomate Supervisor Celia Munson and Supervisor in Training Lyn Montecastro). We also welcomed 6 recent CPE trainees from Saint Andrews Theological Seminary (with Diplomate Supervisor Paul Tabon). The commissioning was held at Philippine Baptist Theological Seminary. Father Ivo Anselmi provided an inspirational message on family, and each of the trainees provided their ministerial metaphor to the group. Afterwards, all joined at the PBTS canteen for celebratory lunch.
Other photos of the event can be found at the Munson’s blogpage: https://bobandceliamunson.wordpress.com/2019/07/28/cpe-commissioning/
CPE Commissioning May 17, 2019
Congratulations to our CPE trainees for Summer Intensive 2019.
Ameenah, Asami, Chara, Solomon, Xerxes, Matthew, and Kimcheng
Our next CPE unit starts June 10, 2019
Activities for March and Beyond
We started CPE this week for our Summer Intensive with 7 trainees. We had some changes in our follow-on units due to schedules of some trainees. This list updates these changes.
March 12: Start of Summer Intensive
March 29: Training at Center Hope for Women
April 15: Mid-term Eval
May 10: Commissioning
June (perhaps June 3) Orientation for new CPE Unit
June 11 Start of CPO
Congratulations
In our partnership with Philippine Baptist Theological Seminary (PBTS), we are happy to have the first graduates of the new Pastoral Care programs at PBTS. They are the first in decades. We are justifiably pleased and proud.
—MDiv-PC: Daniel Spaeth
—MA-PC: Dorina Belran
Christine Fodra
February Updates
We haven’t put in updates in awhile. But that doesn’t mean that nothing has happened.
In January we had:
- Board Meeting of CPSP-Philippines hosted at Bukal Life Care
- Gift-giving to inmates at La Trinidad District Jail
- Completion of two groups of CPE trainees
- Hosted Case Presentation led by Dr. Raymond Lawrence, General Secretary of CPSP
- Hosted signing of new Memorandum of Agreement between CPSP and CPSP-Philippines
Looking into upcoming activities… here are a few.
- February 11. Presentation by one of our trainees, Daniel Spaeth, of Family Life History Thesis. This will be the first such thesis done as part of the M.Div-PC program at Philippine Baptist Theological Seminary (this is a program that we partner with PBTS on).
- February 17. Parenting Seminar in La Trinidad (we are joining as panel members)
- March 11. Start of Summer Intensive Full Unit CPE
- April 15. Start of Summer Intensive Half Unit CPE
- May 27. Start of Palliative Care CPE
CPSP-Philippine Plenary scheduled to happen soon… but waiting for more details.
Christmas Break
Greetings to all. Our courses are on break. Both our present CPE group and our CPO group will start up again in Mid-January. However, we will be at the Lide-Walker Conference at Philippine Baptist Theological Seminary January 7-9.
February, we will be hosting Dr. Raymond Lawrence from CPSP.
Although we are on break, we are still available for consultation. Please email us at bukallife@gmail.com.
