RAF CHAPLAINCY
Padre Hake in the College Chapel at RAFC Cranwell.
Proclamation
There are many occasions throughout the year where chaplains are engaged in leading worship and ceremonial occasions. Aside from leading worshipping communities on individual units, events such as Remembrance Sunday, Battle of Britain Sunday, religious festivals, and many other events within the life of the Royal Air Force community, are all occasions at which spiritual values are shared.
One of the immense privileges of RAF chaplaincy is the fact that we are also called upon to provide advice to commanders, at all levels, on many and varied issues, some obviously ethical, others may well be more moral or pastoral in essence.
All require the chaplain to be both fully engaged in the issue at stake, and confident in the distinctiveness of what we have to offer as religious leaders. Added to this are the myriad of quiet conversations, debates over the dinner table, chats in the corridor, and welfare meeting discussions, through which the chaplain is able to be a prophetic voice into the lives and decisions of the community as a whole.
Padre Shaw serving station personnel on pancake day.
Padre Colley teaching Beliefs and Values.
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