Ampelos- A Nurturing Community of Care and Professional Development Restricted; Files Only
Wilson, Carrol (Spring 2026)
Abstract
The goal of this paper is to explore how the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship’s (CBF) Chaplaincy and Pastoral Counseling division can more faithfully embody its mission that “our fellowship supports” those it endorses. Using ethnographic pastoral theology methods, this paper examines how CBF’s inherited Southern Baptist habitus, organizational structures, and pandemic disrupted practices shape chaplains’ experiences of connection, isolation, and care. Drawing on archival records, endorsement essays, theological reflection, and literature on community organizing, peer learning groups, and online pedagogy, the study identifies both barriers and possibilities for cultivating sustainable, small peer groups as caring online communities. The paper argues that intentional, structured, relational practices are necessary if CBF is to move beyond transactional endorsement procedures toward a more holistic, communal relationship with its chaplains and pastoral counselors. The Ampelos project was initiated as a pilot study to address the connectivity concerns of chaplains and pastoral counselors who are already endorsed as well as those who desire to join the organization.
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