Step Three: Update Your Student Profile
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Your official clergy profileAs an Ordained Addictions Recovery Chaplain, your student profile will be publicly displayed as your official clergy profile in the Christian Leaders Alliance Directory.
This profile serves as your recognized ministry credential, so it is important to present it with clarity, humility, and professionalism.
Write your ministry profile thoughtfully. Highlight how God has stirred your heart for Addictions Recovery Chaplaincy, the training you are pursuing for this calling, and the kinds of recovery ministries, support groups, churches, Soul Centers, sober-living communities, mentoring ministries, family support programs, outreach ministries, nonprofit organizations, or community care settings where you hope to serve.
You may include areas such as:
- Addictions recovery spiritual care
- Prayer support by permission
- Scripture encouragement
- One-on-one ministry conversations
- Recovery encouragement and accountability support
- Support during addiction recovery, relapse concerns, grief, shame, loneliness, or life transition
- Family support and restoration encouragement
- Community and Soul Center outreach
- Referral awareness
- Pastoral care in approved addictions recovery and restoration ministry settings
Upload a professional, high-quality photo that reflects your chaplain role.
Keep your language clear, humble, and role-aware, showing that you understand dignity, consent, confidentiality awareness, recovery sensitivity, trauma-informed listening, accountability, referral boundaries, safety expectations, and the importance of not overstepping your role in addictions recovery ministry settings.
Why this matters:
A well-crafted profile communicates your competency, credibility, and calling as an Ordained Addictions Recovery Chaplain.