Ordinary People Called to an Extraordinary Ministry
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Romans 12:1-4-8 Just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function, so in Christ we who are many form one body, and each member belongs to all the others. We have different gifts, according to the grace given us. If a man’s gift is prophesying, let him use it in proportion to his faith. If it is serving, let him serve; if it is teaching, let him teach; if it is encouraging, let him encourage; if it is contributing to the needs of others, let him give generously; if it is leadership, let him govern diligently; if it is showing mercy, let him do it cheerfully.

From the beginning, the spread of the Gospel was a lay movement. Men like Peter and John were untrained fishermen. The majority of ministry and missionary activity in the early Church and Ministry was accomplished by non-professionals, ordinary men and women involved in secular work as occupations. Jesus entrusted the laity "ordinary people" with major responsibilities of spreading the Gospel. Taking fishermen from their boats, He made them into fishers of men. Jesus knew that ordinary people would become extraordinary when empowered by the Holy Spirit.

The mission given to Chaplain Fellowship Ministries was empowered by the Holy Spirit to find and recruit servants and laborers, men and women who know how to reap the spiritual harvest fields of the world for the Kingdom and Glory of God. It is to this purpose that Chaplain Fellowship Ministries is dedicated to recruit, train, ordain, license, motivate, and mobilize an international network of chaplains and ministries who are capable of serving where ever needed worldwide.

The members of Chaplain Fellowship Ministries are ordained and licensed as nondenominational chaplains and ministers. We are a one of a kind ministry of presence with members and affiliate ministries serving worldwide. We come from all faith groups, ethnic, gender and educational backgrounds. Chaplain Fellowship Ministries by God's grace and guidance has been molded and shaped after the Ministry of Jesus, and we are growing by leaps and bounds every day. We are looking for real people who are serious about their calling. The members of Chaplain Fellowship Ministries are very real hard working people with the heart and compassion to reach out to those who are lost or in need.

James 1:12 Happy are those who remain faithful under trials, because when they succeed in passing such a test, they will receive as their reward the life which God has promised to those who love him.

Chaplain Fellowship is about the great commission. Do you feel like you are being called to do something that will make a difference in your life, but you don't know where to start? I think that maybe we have all felt that call at some point in our lives. Becoming ordained and licensed as a Chaplain and Minister will take you far beyond your wildest imagination, it will make you a much larger person in the spirit of the Lord than you ever dreamed you could be. As Chaplains and Ministers if we see someone in need and have the ability to help them and don't, how can we say that the love of Jesus abides in us? Never forget that what we go after here on earth, determines where we go in the hereafter. We make a living from what we get, but we make a life from what we give. Anyone can give without loving, but no one can love without giving.

Proverbs 11:25 Be generous, and you will be prosperous. Help others, and you will be helped. Those who are good are rewarded here on earth, so you can be sure that wicked and sinful people will be punished.

Chaplain Fellowship Ministries is internationally recognized as a faith based nondenominational ministry of presence that offers everyone including the every day hard working man or woman an opportunity to serve in the position of an ordained Chaplain and Minister through specific ministry programs. Chaplain Fellowship offers ordination, ecclesiastical endorsements and certifications in your chosen field of ministry thereby allowing anyone who feels God has called them to be able to minister at some level as a ordained Chaplain and Minister. Our Mission is to ordain, qualify, equip, offer training and to officially recognize those seeking legal ministry license, ordination, endorsement and certification documentation as ministers, pastors, priests and chaplains.

We know by building and strengthening our communities and proclaiming the Gospel of Jesus to the world at large we are doing what He has called us to do. Jesus has poured out His Spirit upon us, we are to help the lost who are seeking salvation, we are to help those seeking healing for the spirit soul and body with the anointing that rests upon each of us in the name of Jesus.

James 1:27 What God the Father considers to be pure and genuine religion is this: to take care of orphans and widows in their suffering and to keep oneself from being corrupted by the world.

Chaplain Fellowship Ministries will not judge you, belittle you or criticize you for your past or lack of formal education. Please understand it takes all of us to get the job done, just as Jesus recruited many from different backgrounds including educational. It does not take a college graduate to walk into a biker bar full of bikers, it takes a biker who has been there. Nursing home chaplaincy or ministry takes a chaplain who is ordained and has compassion, love and understanding, it takes those who have the love of Jesus in their hearts. It requires someone who knows how to listen, and many times someone to just be there with them when they are dying, the thought of dying alone is very scary for senior citizens. Who better to work with our returning troops or veterans of other wars than veteran who are chaplains themselves that have been there and understand their pain, suffering, fears and disappointments.

2 Peter 1:5-7 Make every effort to add to your faith , goodness; and to your goodness, knowledge; and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; and to godliness, brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness, love."

The picture on the right is a very real person and the best example we have to prove the need for nursing home Chaplains, no one should ever be treated this way. When Chaplains make regular visits to nursing homes, it cuts down on this type of mistreatment. Not all nursing homes have this type of abuse, but there are many that do. This little lady is a child of God, and there is no doubt that there is a special place in Heaven for her. This type of abuse is a disgrace and we should all be ashamed to allow such treatment of our senior citizen. As legally ordained Chaplains we CAN make a difference in this world, we just need to get out there and do it. All it takes is good hearted people who have compassion, mercy, kindness, love and understanding. If you don't want to be a legally ordained chaplain or minister, please just do something in your life to make a difference in the lives of those who are hurting, suffering, lost everything or have nothing and no where to turn. Folks it is up to us!

James 2:13 For judgment is without mercy to the one who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment. Does anyone not want a merciful judgment from God, before whom all must stand?

When you begin your work as an ordained chaplain and minister you can be confident that the Lord who has already started a good work in you, will complete it. Please never let anyone tell you that you are not good enough for the Lord's ministry, or that the Lord has not called you into ministry. There is no human being on this earth who has the right to judge who has or have not been called. We all need Jesus as our Lord and Savior in our everyday lives. He is the one who can lift us above the degrading forces of evil in the world that tries to tell us we are not good enough. It is Jesus who holds all things together, including our lives. Become a member and receive your God given right to ordination and license as a legal member of the clergy. Take a leap of faith, and watch your whole world, and the way you see thing, literally transform before your very eyes.

Galatians 1:6-9 Spiritual enemies also include false teachers. We must be extremely cautious about whom we listen to. Never let anyone tell you that you are not good enough or smart enough to follow the Lords' calling in your lives.

Those Who Share In His Suffering Shall Also Share In His Glory! We believe all Christians have been given spiritual gifts to fulfill their callings. Ministry ordination is a spiritual gift and calling directly from God and is not to be taken lightly. He chooses to call who he will, or to use any instrument, to accomplish His will. When we act upon our calling, we become a member of HIS Ministry.

Matthew 25:21 His lord said unto him, Well done, thou good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord.

Chaplains are ministers called to serve God's people as commissioned by the sacred Word of God. In Christian grace and duty Chaplains respond with love and compassion to people's needs in their whole existence. Chaplains embrace the understanding that human beings are created in the image of God with uniqueness and freedom to think, act and feel. When we do our best, God will do the rest. Jesus made it clear if we give a man a fish, we feed him for one day, but if we teach him to fish, we feed him for a lifetime. God carries out His plan through those obedient to Him in spite of their human frailties.

Joshua 1:9 "Have I not commanded you? Be strong and of good courage; do not be afraid, nor be dismayed,
for the LORD your God is with you wherever you go.

With our Lord and Savior beside us we go into each day as we are, just as our Lord went into each day ready to serve, to seek and to save those who are lost; to look for opportunity to love and to heal. With our Lord and Savior beside us we can love just as we are, unconditionally, without regard for ourselves sacrificially and without hesitation. By seeking our Lord and Savior fully, honestly and humbly, we can go through each day, just as we are.

Galatians 6:9-10 And let us not grow weary while doing good, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart. Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all, especially to those who are of the household of faith [fellow believers]".

Always Remember: God loves us and receives us as we really are, and not as we think we should be. Until that is understood and experienced, we cannot move from religion to actual spirituality.

Chaplain Fellowship offers training to anyone who feels they need it. For all those who want to seek training on their own they might find the following training materials to be helpful: Chaplain Books and Training Materials, Wedding Manuals, Funeral Manuals, Hospital Visitation Manuals, How - To Manuals, Minister's Manuals, Minister's Service Manual, Premarital Guidance, Ordination, Crisis Chaplaincy, Anger Management, On Death and Dying, Endorsing Agency, Emotional Freedom Techniques, Grief Recovery Workbook, Impact Ministries, Crisis Intervention, Faith Based Training, Start a Church, Counseling, Military Chaplaincy, Helping People Through Grief, Pastoral Care, Women in Ministry, Aging, Spirituality and Religion, Becoming Ordained, Restorative Therapy, Anger Management, The Principles of Prison Ministry, Ordaining, Ecclesiastical Endorsement, Ministry to the Incarcerated, Prison Ministry, Under standing Prison Culture Inside and Out, and a lot more. You can check them out .

CFMI Anger Management is a department of Chaplain Fellowship Ministries an official continuing education provider for the following. The Texas State Board of Social Work Examiners, The Texas State Board of Examiners of Professional Counselors and the Texas State Board of Examiners of Marriage and Family Therapists. CFMI Anger Management has been approved by the Bell and Lampasas county departments of probation to provide court ordered anger management. For more information on anger management .

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Galatians 6:4 You should each judge your own conduct. If it is good, then you can be proud of what you yourself have done, without having to compare it with what someone else has done.

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