We are classified as a governmental support agency for emergency and disaster response. Purpose: Establish and maintain a credentialed and active corps of chaplains in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. To be a facilitator for those chaplains to build ministry purposed relationships in the secular and faith based sectors of our communities. Mission: Provide community support and spiritual counsel t
o those experiencing personal crisis or a catastrophic disaster. Be a bridge bringing the secular and faith based communities together. Vision: To see Chaplains who are trained professionals providing meaningful, life-changing service to the communities in which they live, through involvement in every sector of community life. Philosophy: Our philosophy arises out of our Purpose and Missions Statements. Additionally, we believe God has inspired ministry in the workplace. For example, as Chaplains proficient in the areas of Critical Incident Stress Management, Grief and Loss, Trauma and Spiritual Needs, we believe that professionalism is essential in both the religious and secular areas of our ministry. We endeavor to prepare ourselves morally, spiritually, and educationally in order to present ourselves in the role of professional and compassionate ministers of God. We must, and will, maintain the highest standards and accountability. Furthermore, as First Responders for the Soul, it is the heart of the corps that the most important person in our life at any given moment, other than Jesus Christ, is the person standing directly in front of us. Our intent is that we will be of service to them as if we were serving Jesus Christ Himself. Like Christ has extended His love, grace, mercy and forgiveness to us, as His representatives, with the Holy Spirit in us, we extend love, grace, mercy and forgiveness as He has commanded and empowers us to do. As His followers we die to self and take up our cross daily, striving for less of us individually and more of Him, to be vessels so full of Christ that when others interact with us they experience His love, peace, and compassion working unhindered through us. cPAcc consists of over fifty active chaplains serving in over one hundred faith based and secular service organizations in fourteen counties in Pennsylvania.
