The Institutional Chaplaincy

History

The International Pentecostal Holiness Church in 1999 created a new division of Chaplaincy to recognize ordained ministers who serve their communities in institutional settings beyond the church. Their fields of service include hospitals, prisons, nursing homes, colleges/schools, industries, clinics, hospices and other secular institutions.

Over the years, many distinguished IPHC ministers have served as institutional chaplains in relative obscurity. Their efforts have been faithful and their ministry fruitful. Often their service has been rendered without appropriate recognition and honor. The absence of denominational structure and the nature of their service in secular fields contributed to this lack of attention and understanding.

The developments of this new Chaplaincy division was an effort to identify, organize, affirm and resource our existing institutional ministers, as well as to solicit, recruit and direct new candidates.

The Scriptural basis for the institutional chaplains division is recorded in Luke 4:18, "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because He hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised" (KJV).

By Dr. Hugh H. Morgan
Chaplain,
Lieutenant Colonel, USAF Retired
Director of Chaplains Ministries, IPHC