Title: SouthWest School of Chaplaincy, Inc. Training Manual

The SouthWest School of Chaplaincy Inc. Training Manual is intended to strengthen and enhance the education and spiritual gifts of dedicated and caring people who desire to minister with compassion to the hurting. Topics include listening skills, techniques of handling grief and loss, function and role of Hospice in preparation for death and aftercare, function and role of chaplain in funeral planning and the ceremony, techniques for visiting a hospital, prayer/anointing/communion. The manual is intended for chaplains, lay ministers, and ordinary people who have a desire to reach out with compassion to their community.