Rev. Canon Netane Jim Biddle
† June 13, 2009
elected Congress Convenor 2011
We
thank God for Jim…
Obituary by the President here
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ICPCC represents a truly international, ecumenical
and proactive movement of women and men desiring to respond to current
needs and situations faced by real life people in the world
through the skills and mediations of pastoral care and counselling.
The Council serves as a 'web-like' network of people to
- help promote the reflective practice of Pastoral Care and Counselling
throughout the world
- inform, educate and inspire practitioners of Pastoral Care and Counselling
in every place
- enable practitioners to be in touch with each other and to learn
from good practice wherever it occurs.
- to oversee the running of "International Congresses" every
four years.
The International Council came into existence
in 1979 at the first International Congress of reflective practitioners
of Pastoral Care and Counselling held in Edinburgh, Scotland.
There had been gatherings from as early as 1972 of various European
and American practitioners but Edinburgh 1979, where over four
hundred people from all the continents gathered, was a watershed
for Pastoral Care and counselling akin to the ecumenical mission
and church meetings of 1910 and 1937.
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