Chaplain

MCI- WEST Seal
Marine Corps Installations West
Official U.S. Marine Corps Website

MIssion

The Chaplain Corps’ competencies are critical to the commander’s ability to meet the requirement for the free exercise of religion set forth in the U.S. Constitution successfully. 

 

PROVISION:

We will maintain the standards of their ROs for the quality of service they provide in accordance with the manner and form of their ROs: Public worship/sacramental ministry, counseling, faith-based life skills training, religious preparation / education faith-based, relationship enhancement/marriage preparation, command functions with religious element, outreach (religion-based), and public prayer.

 

FACILITATION:

Facilitation helps commanders meet diverse religious needs. Accommodation of individual and group religious requirements includes, but is not limited to scheduling, coordinating, budgeting, and contracting, as well as coordination of visiting chaplains, creating liaison with civilian religious professionals, and RMT volunteers and lay leaders. Facilitation happens when a chaplain assists in the religious needs of someone not of the same religious organization: References for faith-specific counsel/ministry: Lay leader program, administration of volunteers, liaison work with civilian clergy and religious leaders, conduct of the religious needs assessment.

 

CARE:

The care competency is organized into responsive and preventive/educational/developmental programmatic Initiatives: Casualty assistance calls officer support, responsive family support, suicide prevention and postvention, sexual assault prevention and response, domestic violence, prevention and postvention, substance abuse prevention and postvention, combat and operational stress prevention and postvention, information and referral, developmental /Educational preventive life skills.

 

ADVISEMENT:

Advising Commanders is a core competency of all chaplains and RMTs at every level. We have an obligation to utilize this skill inside the Commander’s decision-making cycle. 

Contact infoRMATION

Blinder Memorial Chapel                            

Services:

Sunday Contemporary Christian Service at 9:30 a.m.

Sunday Roman Catholic Mass at 11:00 a.m.

2863 San Jacinto Rd Bldg. 202863 Oceanside, CA 92058 760-725-2929

POC: LT Harrison Usmc.onmicrosoft.com

 

Marine Memorial Chapel  

Daily:   Roman Catholic Mass: Mon-Thurs at 11:40 a.m.

1161 Sunday Roman Catholic Mass at 8:00 a.m.

Sunday: Contemporary Christian Service at10:30 a.m.

1160 Vandergrift Blvd Bldg. Oceanside, CA 92058 760-725-5332

POC: LT Walton mcbcpencrp@outlook.com

Afterhours Duty Chaplain- 760-470-7077

Contract Priest: Father Jude Serfino 760-725-5322 or jude.serfino.ctr@usmc.mil

https://www.pendleton.marines.mil/Staff-Agencies/Chaplains/

Facebook @ MCB Camp Pendleton Command Religious Program

 
CREDO 

760-829-0385

credo.mci.west@usmc.mil

Provides regionally based religious ministry designed to assist the Marine Corps community by offering personal, relational, and spiritual resources, workshops and retreats. All programs and events are free of charge to service members and their families.

 

Marine Corps Installations West