By Osofo Kwesi Atta, Certification Commission Chair

Greetings!  I am Osofo Kwesi Atta, Chair of the Certification Commission of ACPE.  Our regional certification committees have already begun their work for 2015.  At our November meeting, the commission decided that it needed additional planning time outside of when candidates are met.

A workgroup met in early February to examine our process and determine our best practices.  Our work from that meeting will be shared with the commission for decided action.  Affirmed accountabilities from that meeting were as follows:

• Our role as commissioners is to preserve the professionalism and integrity of our certification process, to educate, to validate the work of our students, and determine supervisor competence.
• We continue the focus and understand our authority, develop procedures and enact best practices.
• Our task is to decide a process that correlates with standards and present certification policy.

Deadline to Declare: March 10, 2015

Postmark materials by: March 30, 2015

Review Dates: May 2-5, 2015

Visit the ACPE website for more information regarding the Upcoming Certification Meetings, the Certification Commission,  Meetings and Conferences, etc.

If you are meeting a regional or national committee for any reason, i.e. - Readiness, Candidacy, Extension, Associate, CPE Supervisor, Competency Review - it is required that a new, signed Appendix 9-Attestation of Good Standing, be included with your postmarked materials for each committee meeting. Complete and submit your form online or email it to certification@acpe.edu at least two weeks before your materials are to be postmarked. Contact  Sheilah Hawk at (678) 636-6226 with any questions.

By David C. Johnson, ACPE President

The focus of my thoughts this month is to encourage each of you to consider giving to the Sowing Seeds for Our Holy Work Annual Campaign. I was thinking about it this past weekend as I was outside on a mild day, after a period of extensive cold, working to prepare my lawn for the summer. In the fall I reseeded my lawn in hopes that the bare spots will be covered. Now it is time to spread some fertilizer and weed deterrent in hopes for a lush green lawn come May.

So it is with our Annual Campaign. We are sowing seeds for our holy work. Our "Holy Work" is not running an association office, accreditation centers, or certifying supervisors. That is our business. We do that to survive. Our "Holy Work" is to spread the good news, tell the story, reach out to others, and give when we may not get anything in return. Our "Holy Work" is to sow seed, spread fertilizer and weed deterrent in places where there are no CPE centers or there are populations underserved. Our dues and fees pay for our infrastructure but donations help expand our work.

By Ute Schmidt, Annual Campaign Chair

February is the month when we honor and celebrate African American History.  When the richness of this culture is integrated in the CPE process by our African American colleagues and other diverse communities, ACPE is enhanced and students are inspired across the globe to participate in the CPE learning process. Like you, I am often amazed and moved by my CPE students and their transformations, this quote from a CPE student  taken from our annual report captures the holiness of our work: "Caring... is about listening, reflecting, kindness, compassion and open mindedness to people of all faiths and no faith at all."

During this month dedicated to love and remembering, I encourage you to honor a colleague or a student who has touched your heart and soul by making a donation of any amount to the foundation.

May the vibrant community of ACPE grow stronger every month! 

What's in a name? A rose is a rose is a rose; right? We are presently known as CPE Supervisor. Is this how you like to be known? Are there problems with this identifier? Is there a name that you think might fit better? Wear better? Reveal a more accurate truth about the one who bears it?

The Standards Committee wants to know. We have set up a simple questionnaire. Please follow the link below and tell us what you would like as an identifier - identity - title. The second, of only two parts, wants to know if there are important considerations supporting your suggestion. Please share your comments and rationale especially if it is something that needs to be taken into consideration as we explore this question. 

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The Association of Hong Kong Hospital Christian Chaplaincy Ministry has been an ACPE International Affiliate since 1999. In our almost 20 year relationship , several CPE Supervisors have to gone to Hong Kong to conduct CPE units and consult. ACPE Supervisor  The Rev. Van Wai-Chuen Lo  has been the Associate General Secretary of AHKHCCM since 2011.  He also served as convener of the 30th Anniversary Organizing Committee.  Click here to read their Professional Chaplaincy Development and Pastoral Education Annual Report 2014, 30th Anniversary Special Edition.

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is very pleased to announce  that RP Vol. 35 should be available for you to read and order this coming June.  This was hardly a "done deal" as we had to find a replacement for the incomparable editorship provided by Herbert Anderson since RP 27.  Prior to RP, Herbert, George Fitchett and others  were instrumental in ensuring the publications of the Journal of Supervision and Training in Ministry since 1977.

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