Types of Chaplaincy

Corporate Chaplains are comforters, pastors, teachers, and counselors. They are creative and understanding as they demonstrate God’s grace and love in ministering to people at manufacturing sites, recreational sites, business offices, corporation headquarters, and in community settings.

Counselors in Ministry is a form of care by which a minister with specialized training seeks to help others cope with personal, marital, family, social, or religious problems.

Disaster Relief Chaplains are members of Southern Baptist Disaster Relief teams. They are mobilized with their SBC state convention Disaster Relief team by the state Disaster Relief coordinator.

Healthcare Chaplains are persons called by God and trained to serve in an environment of sickness, pain, birth and death. "Holistic medicine" is the term used today, meaning people are treated as total beings: mind, body, and spirit.

Institutional Chaplains are comforters, pastors, teachers, and counselors. They are creative and understanding as they demonstrate God’s grace and love in ministering to people in institutions and community settings.

Military Chaplains provide military personnel and their families religious programs through which a person may exercise their right of freedom of religion. The military depends upon all faith groups to provide theologically trained, spiritually motivated, and qualified ministers to serve as chaplains to military components.

Public Safety Chaplains are comforters, pastors, teachers and counselors. They are creative and understanding as they demonstrate God’s grace and love in ministering to employees of law enforcement, fire department and emergency services agencies and the people they serve.