Adventist Chaplaincy Ministries:
Babcock Center for Clinical Pastoral Education and Chaplaincy Services (BCCPE&CS)
Welcome to Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) at Babcock University Teaching Hospital (BUTH). CPE at Babcock is affiliated with Kettering Health Network CPE Center, Ohio, USA.
CPE is a graduate level, professional training forseminarians, clergy and lay persons. It is an experiential-based, group-centered, adult theological education program for seminarians, clergy, healthcare workers and lay persons of diverse cultures, ethnic groups and faith traditions.
As an interfaith study, it brings learners together in supervised environment and delivery of spiritual/pastoral care to patients, family and staff as well as clinical learning for the student.
A major focus of CPE is the integration of one’s personal history, faith tradition and the behavioral sciences in the practice of pastoral care.
Babcock University:
Clinical Setting
Babcock Center for Clinical Pastoral Education and Spiritual Care Service is located on a serene plane 45km from Lagos International Airport along Lagos – Sagamu Express way is Babcock University Teaching Hospital (BUTH). BUTH is 200 bed hospital equipped with specialised facilities for Accident and Emergency, Cardiac and Dialysis Center, ICU and fully automated Radio-diagnostic and Laboratory Center.
As a teaching hospital, BUTH is accredited to offer graduate and residency program in major specialised medical fields.
Goals of Clinical Pastoral Education and Chaplaincy Services
- To help chaplains become familiar with the life and the work of a hospital.
- Through religious ministry, to offer a service to patients, their families, and to staff of this hospital and thereby to help chaplains evaluate their ability to give good pastoral care.
- To offer chaplains an opportunity to gain a deeper understanding of themselves and of their relationships to others: to patients and families, peers, supervisors, hospital staff and employees. Through this experience, it is hoped that they will become more sensitive to strengths and weaknesses, and deeper motivations of others, and in so doing, to become more aware and understanding of themselves.
- To provide an opportunity for chaplains to become familiar with a variety of tools and models for initiating and building pastoral relationships that can be applied to the parish and other forms of pastoral ministry.
- To help chaplains become aware of resources in both the hospital and the community that can enrich and supplement their ministry.
- To help chaplains examine more closely their particular role as they work together with other professionals who are also concerned with the healing of the sick.