For Immediate Release
Date: Thursday, August 1, 2024
Columbia, S.C.—Cherry Hill Seminary graduate Bryce Woyak has earned his Board Certified Chaplain certification from the Spiritual Care Association. Woyak is the first Seminary graduate to earn this coveted professional distinction.
Woyak graduated from Cherry Hill Seminary in 2024, having earned his Master of Divinity degree, specializing in Pastoral Counseling & Chaplaincy. The degree is only one requirement for board certification, a rigorous competency-based process which also requires at least 800 hours of clinical training (e.g., CPE) and a minimum of 2,000 subsequent hours as a chaplain. Board certification is the hallmark of excellence for professional chaplains.
“Bryce’s accomplishment reflects the diligence he brought to his studies at CHS,” said Holli Emore, Executive Director of the Seminary. “His ability to translate his studies into not only a vocation, but professional employment as well, bears out the original vision of our early Seminary leadership.”
Woyak noted that, “I am grateful to have received my board certification in chaplaincy. This would not have been possible without the education and encouragement that I received from Cherry Hill Seminary. The Pastoral Counseling and Chaplaincy MDiv program prepared me to dive head first into the world of clinical chaplaincy and to turn my passion for spiritual care into a career caring for the human spirit.”
Cherry Hill Seminary is the leading provider of education and practical training in leadership, ministry, and personal growth in Pagan and Nature-Based spiritualities, empowering spiritual leadership, scholarship, and ethics through theological and pastoral education to nurture interfaith engagement in a diverse society. https://cherryhillseminary.org/
