CBF Chaplaincy & Pastoral Counseling mark 25th Anniversary

By Marv Knox

CBF celebrates 25 years of endorsing more than 1,200 chaplains and pastoral counselors. There are CBF-endorsed chaplains in all 50 states and nine countries. Chaplains serve in each branch of the U.S. Armed Forces, medical centers, correctional institutions, hospice organizations, police, fire and rescue departments, colleges and universities, businesses and industries, retirement communities, the Department of Veterans Affairs and Civil Air Patrol.

Pastoral Counselor Lauralee Estes receives a stole from Chaplain Ansia Chahoy, chairwoman of the CBF Council of Endorsement from 20182020. Carrol Wilson, CBF chaplaincy and pastoral counseling ministries specialist, participates in the commissioning service during the 2019 General Assembly worship, offering a blessing to each newly-endorsed chaplain. Commissioning stoles are handwoven in Togo, Africa, by a weaver who partners with CBF field personnel Lynn and Mike Hutchinson.