Airport Chaplaincy: Spiritual Care for People on the Move
Airport chaplaincy serves perhaps the largest community in the world and yet remains unknown by many in both the general public and the chaplaincy profession. Join Lab Director of Programs Michael Skaggs and three airport chaplains from around the world to hear what the daily work of airport chaplaincy is like, what education and training is needed by airport chaplains, and what the spiritual care of the future looks like in the unique world of air travel.
We will be joined by:
Reverend Canon Jonathan Baldwin came to chaplaincy after almost two decades in banking. He has served in parish ministry in England and also as president of the International Association of Civil Aviation Chaplains.
Reverend Greg McBrayer has worked and served in the aviation industry over 40 years. He is the Chief Flight Controller and Chaplain at American Airlines (IOC) Integrated Flight Operations Control Center in Dallas-Fort Worth Texas. Father Greg is also the Chairman of DFW Airport Interfaith Chaplaincy.
Pastor Marieke Meiring-Snijder has served several different parishes in the Netherlands as well as abroad. Between 2004 and 2007, she was affiliated with the English-speaking Presbyterian Church of Malaysia. In addition to her duties as a minister in Kuala Lumpur, Marieke taught at two theological seminaries.
Her return to the Netherlands was followed by an appeal from the Protestant community at IJsselstein, with whom she was associated from 2009 to 2015. During that period she was also involved as a chaplain in the Johannes Hospitium at Wilnis.
In 2017 she completed the postgraduate education in spiritual direction. Marieke is officially associated with the Ecumenical Church Community De Ark at Hoofddorp and she is a resident of the city of Woerden.
We thank Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) Airport Interfaith Chaplaincy for its support of this webinar. Learn more at http://www.dfwairportchapel.org/.
You may also be interested in an early Lab webinar on airport chaplaincy with Rev. Donna Mote, then chaplain at ATL. We also list resources related to airport chaplaincy here.