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MISSIONARY CHAPLAINCY
We Care missionary chaplains are those who commit a portion of their life to
minister to America’s incarcerated. Missionaries trust God to
provide for a major portion of their financial need through
interested churches, family, and friends. Please consider Supporting a Missionary.
You may look at the policies for our chaplains:
Missionary Policy Manual 
Short Term (Up to 2 Years):
For those who are sensing God’s calling
to step away from the ordinary and commit a short portion of their
lives to missionary prison chaplaincy or a supporting role in the
mission of We Care Program.
We Care Program will
link the short-term missionary with available positions in prison
chaplaincy work. Short-term missionaries will most likely be placed
in roles such as assisting a state chaplain in a large correctional
facility, taking a lead chaplain role in a smaller minimum security
camp, coordinating a “Faith Dorm” program, or a combination of
chaplaincy work and organizational support roles.
In addition to
periodic staff development activities, grow by caring for the
“least of these”—listening, encouraging, counseling, teaching and/or
preaching, playing games, along with a multitude of other activities
and roles, depending on institutional needs and your gifts/talent
make-up. Experience growth by exercising and strengthening
your spiritual gifts while ministering to the needs of America’s
incarcerated.
Long Term/Career (More than 2 years):
Some who commit to a short term assignment
in prison chaplaincy work gradually realize that God has called them
to devote a longer portion of their life to minister to men and women
behind bars. They will usually have a deep sense of calling to the
work and a desire to minister to inmates until God tells them
otherwise.
The long-term missionary settles into a
stable chaplaincy role, becoming a pastoral presence in the prison in
which he/she serves. Depending on his/her gifts and the particular
needs of the institution, the chaplain may spend a portion of each
week in teaching, preaching, one-on-one discipleship, counseling,
crisis intervention, ministering to the sick, coordinating volunteer
activities, and providing educational and spiritual learning
possibilities to facilitate inmate personal growth.
Along with the needs of the incarcerated,
the chaplain remains sensitive to the spiritual needs of the entire
correctional staff and administration of the particular facility in
which he works.
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