The C.S.P.C.D.

Not everyone is cut out to be a chaplain. If you are a preacher type that is out to convert the world to your belief and all you want to do is preach to someone then Chaplaincy is NOT for you."

That statement was made by a person quite familiar with the duties of a chaplain. A Chaplain is often called a "street minister" for they sometimes go where there is no organized church structure or even a building. A chaplain's ministry takes him to the bus stops, nursing homes, to hospitals, to local and national disaster scenes, to federal prisons, schools, local jails, campgrounds, and anywhere else where people may be lost, sick, alone, forsaken, forgotten, dying, or suffering. A chaplain may be the last person an inmate on death row may see before the life is ended. A chaplain may bless an infant child one moment and perform a burial ceremony for the infant the next moment. A chaplain may stand knee deep in the blood and horror of a local or national disaster caused by war, flood, hurricanes, or terrorism. A chaplain must be a good listener and be there in times of need for all people for suffering and disasters does not happen to only some people but can happen to people of any nation or religion.

If you can not listen to people no matter what color, nationality, or faith or no faith they have then Chaplaincy is NOT for you. Bless you and Thank you for visiting but please leave this site and visit another site that is right for you. However if you have heard God's call to be a servant as a Chaplain then perhaps you have found a place here at the CSPCD where you can be the servant you have been chosen to be.

Perhaps you have visited other websites that offer Chaplaincy but if not, then look at other sites and wherever you look you will find one thing Chaplaincy has in common and that is all chaplains must pledge to minister to all people of all faiths or no faiths and some find it difficult to minister in a pluralistic environment where a chaplain is likely to encounter those of a belief system much different to or in opposition to the chaplain's personal beliefs. Most places that offer Chaplaincy stress tolerance for all religions but then have a strict statement of faith to a religion. Some places ask you to renounce your church and then ordain and support only their church. Here at the CSPCD we welcome all who hears God's call to Chaplaincy for the parent church is and always will be an interfaith organization and has been since 1978. Here at an Interfaith Church you can be a part of something that always was interfaith and not something that is trying to adapt to be interfaith. Here you are welcomed into a church that will accept your faith and not condemn it. Here you do not have to renounce your ordination or your church but you are welcome to bring your church with you.

Part of the Church Of Seven Plane mission statement is repeated here. A statement that has always been an ideal model for Interfaith and Chaplaincy. At the CSP and the CSPCD we do not just talk "Interfaith" but in fact we were "Interfaith" in the 20th Century and we are still "Interfaith" in the 21st Century.

"The successful church of the 21st Century will be a church of many colors. Its membership will consist of peoples from every nation, every tongue, and every color. It will draw its theology from all the worlds’ great spiritual traditions, finding commonalties instead of focusing on differences. It will incorporate these commonalties of religious tradition into it's own unique ideology, ritual, and practice. A successful church of the 21st Century will thus be truly Interfaith and not just simply Interdenominational.

The successful church of the 21st Century will actively and purposefully reach out to the excluded, to the marginalized, and to the cast out in global society. It will reach out unto both "saint" and "sinner" alike. It will be a place of rejuvenation and refuge for the tired and hopeless. And such a church will be a great beacon of Light in a world that is becoming increasingly dark. The successful church of the 21st Century will address the issues, which concern people’s daily lives, and the issues, which concern the world at large. The spiritual leaders of such a church in the 21st Century shall stand courageous as they stand up for the rights of every human being on the face of planet earth.

The successful church of the 21st century will stay far from a place of hoarding. Its clergy will be true ministers and shepherds, meaning, "teacher" and not "overlord". It will be a holy and sacred place and it shall be a place overflowing with spiritual enlightenment and unconditional love. And in such a church of the 21st Century there shall be no fear because in such a place the universal Law of Love shall be truly active.

This is the church that will emerge in the 21st Century. This is the church that will survive into the next millennium and the next. Prejudice and exclusion shall have no place in it. Hatred and self-righteousness shall find nowhere to hide within it. Greed and deception will flee from it and such a church will lead humanity into a true Brotherhood and Sisterhood of Light. To some of you this may seem but only a simple fantasy but alas it is already dawning in many churches, temples, mosques, and synagogues all around the world:

This IS the Church of Seven Planes."