Chaplain Page
Thanks for your willingness to serve!
Here are some changes for 2025.
1. Chaplains will receive transportation reimbursement (up to $500), but will no longer receive a stipend in addition to that.
2. We are now covering the transportation cost (up to $500) of any chaplain's wife who serves as a volunteer in the kitchen, etc.
3. Since we are usually very short on volunteers during May-September, preference will be given to chaplains who are able to come with their wife during these 5 months of the year.
Please read this thoroughly BEFORE you arrive.
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Please watch this video BEFORE you arrive.
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Food Sensitivities or Dietary Restrictions
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Volunteer Skill Sheet (Optional)
If your spouse is coming, we will be glad to have her help with light kitchen prep and cleanup. If she would like to be used in other ways or in additional ways, she may fill out this form.
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Communion Policy
On page 12 of the chaplain handbook it says: "...please keep in mind that the Chaplain, Participants and/or Counselors are very possibly from various Synods or Denominations, and respecting Shepherd’s Canyon’s LCMS RSO status, Holy Communion is not officially a part of the Retreat Experience, unless it is expressly requested by any Participant(s)." - If anyone requests communion, we simply ask the chaplains to offer it in a private setting, similar to how pastors offer it to their homebound members. This also allows for personal confession and absolution to be a part of that experience. ALL Christian ministry workers and their spouses are welcome to our retreats, but unfortunately corporate communion is not something that we can offer as a standard part of every retreat.