ISSUE HIGHLIGHTS: AUGUST/SEPTEMBER 1998

• Cover Story
  • Terry Shields, MSHR, formerly a critical care chaplain at St. Agnes Medical Center in Philadelphia, answers a missionary call to Guinea, Africa, where she puts her chaplaincy skills to good use as she journeys with refugees in their suffering.
  
  
• National News
  • National Leadership Council Consensus Decisions, from the NLC Meeting in Milwaukee, May 29-30, 1998.
  
  
• Executive Director's Column
  • In his article, "From Dis-ease to Rest," Fr. Joe Driscoll discusses prayer as a quality of resting and the role of the spiritual caregiver as leading the patient (or client) from "the place of dis-ease to the place of rest within the concrete meaning of love in their life."
  
  
• Special Features
  • Chaplain Jeff Nixa, after finding himself unable to provide all the spiritual care that patients needed at the rural hospital where he was the sole chaplain, relates his experiences in Starting a Spiritual Care Volunteer Program. He offers some advice to chaplains/pastoral care directors who might want to consider beginning a program of their own.

  • Taking a Closer Look at the NACC Financial Picture
    A special section contains articles by NACC Leadership and members of the Finance Committee on budgeting, operations, investments, and development. President Monica Lucas discusses "Our Call to Stewardship." NACC Treasurer Hugh Polensky outlines "The 1998/99 Fiscal Year Budget Process" and the reasons for the decision to raise the membership dues. Finance Committee Chair Martin Guay discusses the role of the Finance Committee; Fr. Joe Driscoll discusses how stewardship is practiced in national office operations.

  • SUPER-Vision Special Section - Forum for Clinical Pastoral Educators
    The Dialogue Continues - Four supervisors give their views on the proposal published in the April 1998 issue for the NACC to discontinue certification of Supervisors and the accreditation of CPE centers. CPE Supervisor Rev. John J. Bucchino, OFM, explains why he supports the proposal, and Supervisor Rick Erickson tells why he cannot support it in its present form.
  
  
• Guest Editorial
  • Joni Scott, M.D., a surgeon and director of the Breast Center at St. John's Regional Health Center in Springfield, Missouri, writes about the modern tendency of physicians to neglect the "art" of medicine in their preoccupation with the scence and the facts of medicine. Her article, headlined "Physicians Should Refocus on Art of Medicine," is also being published in a local newsletter which circulates to more than 1,000 physicians.
  
  
• Regional Happenings
  • Region III Plans 4th Joint Conference hosted by NACC , the Association of Professional Chaplains, and the Pennsylvania Society of Chaplains. It will be held September 13-15 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
    
  • Region XIII announces dates and locations for three mini-conferences in the region in September.
  
  
• Horizons
  • Book Review on The Supervisory Encounter (Yale University Press). Reviewer John Gillman, Ph.D., a CPE Supervisor, discusses what he finds of value to educators of pastoral care in a book subtitled: "A Guide for Teachers of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis."
  
  
• What's Coming in Future Issues
  • The October 1998 issue will focus on Forgiveness. Articles on this topic are invited. The deadline is Monday, August 10, 1998.