Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE)

What is CPE?

  • Learning by reflecting on one's experience
  • Doing the work of a Chaplain
  • Submitting your ministry efforts to supervision
  • Participating in a dynamic learning group
CPE seeks to promote:

  • Self-awareness
  • Pastoral skills in interpersonal relationships
  • The ability to utilize the clinical method of learning
  • The ability to utilize supervision
  • The accepting and utilizing of support, confrontation, and evaluation
  • Effective use of one's spiritual heritage, understanding of behavioral sciences, and theological understanding
  • The awareness of how one's attitude affects one's ministry
  • The gaining of an awareness of a chaplain's role within an interdisciplinary team
  • The awareness of how social conditions, systems, and structures affect other's and one's self
  • The capacity to utilize one's prophetic voice
The learning environment is…

Dynamic     ~     Interpersonal     ~    Process     ~    Education

A day in the life of a CPE student includes:

  • Verbatim Presentations
  • Didactic Sessions
  • Interpersonal Growth Conferences
  • Direct Pastoral Care and Visitation
Pastoral care and leadership:

  • Visiting with people
  • Working with staff
  • Small group activities
  • Leading worship
Where are our students placed?

  • Bethel Home, Gabriel's Villa, Lutheran Homes of Oshkosh
  • Mercy Hospital - Oshkosh
  • St. Elizabeth's Hospital - Appleton
  • St. Agnes Hospital - Fond du Lac
Life after CPE…

Graduates go on to be stronger church workers, Pastors, Chaplains, skilled lay leaders.

What does CPE certify?

  • ACPE only certifies CPE Supervisors
  • CPE is an educational experience
  • CPE is one component required by many denominations and certifying groups
Who can apply?

  • Clergy, lay people, theological students, and members of religious orders

To apply for the CPE Program, please complete the  CPE Application or the Supervisory CPE Application and mail to or email:

Chaplain David Rumbold
225 North Eagle Street
Oshkosh, WI  54902
(920) 235-4653
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