Chaplain Resource Network
A collaborative initiative providing high-quality, practical training content and tools to help institutions, organizations, and denominations equip chaplains for real-world ministry.
About the Network
The Marsh Institute for Chaplains, Clinical Pastoral Education International, Community Chaplain Network, Hope Thru Faith Foundation, and CAREForce have established the Chaplain Resource Network (CRN), a strategic alliance designed to help institutions, organizations, and denominations equip chaplains with high-quality, practical training resources.
Across the chaplaincy ecosystem, seminaries, denominational leaders, endorsing bodies, and chaplain organizations often face the same bottleneck. The growing demand for chaplains requires consistent, credible training content and specialized expertise.
The Chaplain Resource Network helps close that gap by providing a shared resource hub so training organizations can deliver well-structured, usable content without having to build resources from scratch.
Chaplain Resourcing Reimagined!
The Standard
Every Lesson Clears the Same Bar
A chaplain or a partner organization can trust that the bar below is the bar every CRN lesson clears. We build each lesson from cited research, structure it by recognized learning domains, and have a subject-matter expert review and sign off before it publishes.
How a CRN Lesson Is Built — a short walkthrough
Why It Matters?
Faster program build-out
CRN reduces the time it takes to stand up training and educational tracks by providing ready-to-deploy modules and materials.
Flexible packaging
Content is modular and can be combined into certificates, courses, online classes, and CEU-ready learning pathways.
Protected boundaries
Each organization retains its mission and identity, with clear licensing and attribution rules to protect content integrity.
Practical and field-ready
Resources are built for real-world chaplain ministry, usable in cohorts, workshops, online delivery, and organizational training.
Scalable distribution
CRN is structured as a clearinghouse and distribution platform to deliver content across multiple formats, channels, and languages.
Global readiness
The network supports consistent competencies, ethical practice, institutional readiness, multilingual expansion, and contextual delivery in diverse settings.
Resource Library in Development
The CRN library includes 335 lessons in total, with 224 complete and 111 in development, and more modules to be approved. The network is designed to support chaplain formation in multiple contexts and to provide resources that can be distributed across formats, channels, and languages.
CRN's delivery model is designed to equip and support chaplains in diverse and global settings, helping organizations scale training without sacrificing quality or practical relevance.
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Founding organizations
335
Lessons
111
In Development
From the Founders
Media Contact
Ken Schlenker, Director
Chaplain Resource Network
Email: [email protected]
For More Information
Dr. Jim Browning, Director
Marsh Institute for Chaplains
Email: [email protected]
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