Rev.
Kei Okada
My ministry is currently focusing on witnessing God’s
unconditional, healing love in hospice care, where every voice
is heard, every story is remembered, and as on the Cross every
life is lifted up rather than given up. When every pain and
suffering is shared and attended, we experience the wound
of Jesus which heals us in our suffering together. Our life
becomes whole and abundant, when we embrace one another’s
living, dying and beyond, in the resurrecting love of Jesus.
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CABC: Associate minister since 1996
1994 Joined Convent; 1995 Commissioned as a Stephen minister;
1995 Completed Teacher's Training; 1996 Trial Sermon; 1998
Ordination; 1999-2005 Minister to New Members; 2006 Ordination
recognized by American Baptist Churches Metro NY. Served
Stephen Ministry, Sick and Shut-in Ministry, HIV/AIDS Ministry,
and New Members Orientation including Big Brothers Big Sisters
Ministry
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Spiritual Care Counselor (Chaplain),
Visiting Nurse Service of New York Hospice Care (www.vnsny.org)
- since 2006
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Pastoral Counselor (part-time), Housing
Works (Adult Day Health Care program for the homeless living
with HIV/AIDS www.housingworks.org) - since 2000
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Board Certified Chaplain, Association
of Professional Chaplains - since 2007
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EDUCATION: 1993 Master of Divinity, Union
Theological Seminary; 1986 Bachelor of Fine Arts, School of
Visual Art (New York); 1982 Bachelor of Arts, Sophia University
(Tokyo, Japan)
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