Your Future in Chaplaincy Ministry

A Bachelor of Arts in chaplaincy ministry will help you be able to care for people better. This program, offering both a major and a minor for interested students, is a journey of learning how to minister to people in your life, church and community with practical tools and confidence. You will learn how to allow God to work in your life as you serve people in difficult situations.

The “Introduction to Crisis Ministry” class is the “What Do I Do When?” course. You will learn what you do when someone is not acting like themselves, or you need to make a hospital visit, or go minister to a person in jail or prison, or respond to a natural disaster, or support a police officer who asks you to assist in delivering tragic news, or caring for a military family in your community. You will be able to apply what you learn in your chaplaincy and Christian studies courses to develop your hands-on ministry skills founded on God’s Word for the equipping of your Church.

Graduating with a BA in chaplaincy ministry will prepare you for serving as a chaplain or in any area of applied ministry in your church and community. Currently there are 3,800 North American Mission Board endorsed chaplains serving in 63 types of paid and voluntary chaplaincy ministries. This is a very large number of chaplains, but it is only a fraction of the estimated 50,000 chaplains actively serving across the United States. As you pray to seek the Lord’s leadership in your life about this degree, contact us for more information. We would love to be on this journey with you!

Interested in the Dewey Center for Chaplaincy? Visit the center here.

Charleston Southern University’s accreditation can be found here.