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RAF CHAPLAINCY

Chaplain-in-Chief’ s Intent’ s Intent

RAF CHAPLAINCY

Vision Vision::

A Chaplaincy A Chaplaincy Profession Profession inspired inspired and equipped and equipped to serve to serve the the RAF Community RAF Community delivering delivering Personal Personal Resilience Resilience, Pastoral, Pastoral Care Care and Professional and Professional Ethics Ethics..

Mission Mission Statement Statement::

The Chaplaincy The Chaplaincy Profession Profession will recruit will recruit, train, and train sustain, and sustain chaplains chaplains from a from diversity a diversity of backgrounds of backgrounds to care to for care the for Whole the Whole Force Force across across the spectrum the spectrum of faiths of faiths and beliefs and beliefs..

Priorities::

Deliver Deliver chaplaincy chaplaincy effect effect through through::

Engaging Engaging on Units on and Units on Operations and Operations across the across air and the space air and domains space domains..

Enabling Enabling the spiritual the spiritual needs of needs all personnel of all personnel.. Expanding Expanding the Reserve the Reserve cadre to cadre meet to diverse meet diverse Service Service requirements requirements..

Strengthen Strengthen Whole Whole Force Force resilience resilience through through::

Caring for Caring the wounded for the wounded, injured,, injured sick or, bereaved sick or bereaved..

Facilitating Facilitating Spiritual Spiritual Resilience Resilience in personal in personal and professional and professional relationships relationships.. Encouraging Encouraging reflective reflective ethical decision ethical decision making. making.

Enablers Enablers::

Recruiting Recruiting and engagement and engagement strategy strategy: ensure: the ensure recruitment the recruitment of suitably of suitably qualified qualified and experienced and experienced leaders leaders across a across spectrum a spectrum of faiths of and faiths beliefs and, reflecting beliefs, reflecting the diversity the diversity of society of. society.

Resourcing Resourcing the professional the professional development development of chaplains of chaplains: ensure: a ensure dynamic a dynamic ministry ministry of of continuous continuous education education and professional and professional development development..

Developing Developing chaplaincy chaplaincy within a within diverse a diverse faith environment faith environment: ensure: engagement ensure engagement with with faith communities faith communities across Defence across Defence, promoting, promoting religious religious literacy, literacy and seeking, and seeking to serve to by serve by prayer, presence prayer, presence and proclamation and proclamation..

A Chaplaincy A Profession Profession committed to enabling to enabling the the RAF RAF to be to spiritually be spiritually ready ready to fly to, to fly fight, to fight and and to win to. win.

To serve To serve, not, be not served be served..

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