When I was in Canada, I was trained in Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE), so it was easy to adopt this ministry myself. CPE is a kind of training for the senior class of seminaries, mostly in the States and Canada. To me, when I was an M.Div student at McMaster Divinity College at Hamilton in Canada, school asked us to complete CPE course, so to get M.Div I have done at Woodstock, for Mentally Retarded People, and also later I did one more unit at Whitby, for Psychiatric Hospital. I have learned a lot from two CPE. As we know, CPE is for pastors, not lay people, but sometimes lay people come and are trained in CPE.
Anyway it is for future pastors, but our ministry, Lay Pastors Ministry, is for pure lay people, yes it’s good for church and pastors, but more focused on the lay people. Why? They, lay people, also need to grow just like pastors. I tried to adapt CPE to our students while I was in Nagaland. It was good for them, because our students learned PACE ministry (12 Training Modules) from me, so they understood CPE more easily. Therefore, I found PACE+ CPE for students to be really good.
