John Olsen

Current

• Hospital Chaplain at Abington Memorial Hospital

Past

• worship team leader/coffeehouse ministry coordinator at Hatboro Baptist Church
• Pastor at First Baptist Church of Manayunk
• Chaplain Resident at Abington Memorial Hospital

• Chaplain Resident at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital
• Pastoral Intern at First Baptist Church of Norristown

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Education

• Eastern Seminary
• West Chester University of Pennsylvania

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John Olsen’s Summary

I have over ten years of experience in the field of interfaith hospital chaplaincy and pastoral care. This includes one year as a home hospice chaplain, two years of clinical pastoral education residencies and internships, and more than seven years of service in full-time staff chaplaincy. I also have five years of experience as a local pastor in the American Baptist Churches (ABC-USA).

I hope to continue to develop and advance my skills and experience as a full-time hospital chaplain. At some point in the future, I would like to explore supervisory training.

John Olsen’s Specialties:

*7.5 units-Clinical Pastoral Education
*trained to give MBTI; PREPARE-ENRICH pre-marital inventories
*extensive on-call chaplain exp
*extensive bereavement support exp
*trained responder-Emerg Disaster Mgmt Prep Plan
*Super-User/trainer-Knowledge-Based Charting, Sunrise documentation progs
*Member-Info Tech Partnership Council
*Currently involved in implementation of LEAN continuous improvement project designed to streamline collection of religious census data at AMH.

John Olsen’s Experience

• Hospital Chaplain

  Abington Memorial Hospital

  (Non-Profit; 5001-10,000 employees; Hospital & Health Care industry)

  August 1998 — Present (11 years 4 months)

  I serve as a full-time hospital chaplain at Abington Memorial Hospital. This includes providing interfaith spiritual care to patients, families and hospital staff; ethical consultation; bereavement care; community education; emergency on-call coverage; and fulfillment of diverse spiritual and religious needs. My areas of coverage include: cardiac telemetry, neurology, oncology, orthopedics, and the special care nursery, as well as several medical-surgical floors.

• worship team leader/coffeehouse ministry coordinator

  Hatboro Baptist Church

  (Hospital & Health Care industry)

  2006 — 2009 (3 years )

• Pastor

  First Baptist Church of Manayunk

  (Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

  January 2000 — May 2005 (5 years 5 months)

  I served as a bi-vocational pastor at a small, urban congregation in the Manayunk section of Philadelphia, PA. In addition to preaching, worship leadership, pastoral care, and administrative responsibilities, a primary emphasis in my ministry at FBCM was outreach to the surrounding community. This included starting a coffeehouse ministry, designing and implementing websites for the church and coffeehouse, starting an ALPHA group, as well as various community outreach ministry events.

• Chaplain Resident

  Abington Memorial Hospital

  (Non-Profit; 5001-10,000 employees; Hospital & Health Care industry)

  August 1998 — August 1999 (1 year 1 month)

  I served as a full-time chaplain resident at Abington Memorial Hospital from 1998-9 in which I completed four units of clinical pastoral education and gained experience as unit chaplain to the pediatric, surgical trauma, orthopedic and several medical-surgical units.

• Chaplain Resident

  Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital

  (Non-Profit; 5001-10,000 employees; Hospital & Health Care industry)

  August 1997 — July 1998 (1 year )

  I served as a full-time chaplain resident. This included receiving three units of clinical pastoral education, in addition to serving as the unit chaplain to several medical-surgical and intensive care floors. I also served as the chaplain to the pediatric units during that time.

• Pastoral Intern

  First Baptist Church of Norristown

  (Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Religious Institutions industry)

  July 1995 — August 1997 (2 years 2 months)

  pastoral intern responsible for pastoral care and visitation, worship leadership, preaching once monthly, co-youth leader, outreach support

John Olsen’s Education

• Eastern Seminary

  Master of Divinity (MDiv) , 1993 — 1997

• West Chester University of Pennsylvania

  Bachelor of Science , Music Education, Vocal Choral Concentration , 1989 — 1993

  Activities and Societies:

  Masterworks Chorus, New Music Ensemble, Intramural Sports Leagues

Additional Information

John Olsen’s Interests:

spiritual diversity, religion and health, meditation, jazz, blues and folk guitar

John Olsen’s Groups:

*Board Certified Chaplain (BCC)-Association of Professional Chaplains, (APC),
*Clinical Member-Association for Clinical Pastoral Education, (ACPE),
*Ecclesiastical Endorsement, Ordination-American Baptist Churches USA, (ABC-USA),
*Member of Board of Directors- Samaritan's Counseling Centers of Southeastern Pennsylvania-Aug 2009-present,
*Area Certification Chair (PA, NJ, DE, MD), Aug 2009-present, Assoc of Prof Chaplains (APC);
*Theological Equivalency Committee Member and Reviewer- Association of Professional Chaplains, (APC) May 2004-present.
*Worship team leader-Hatboro Baptist Church, (2006-present)

•    West Chester University Students and Alumni Network
•    Professional Chaplains
•    Chaplains
•    Hospital Chaplaincy & Pastoral Care Dept Managers
•    Pastoral Care Leadership Network

John Olsen’s Honors:

Recipient of Abington Ambassador award in recognition of excellent service. March, 2008.

National ordination through American Baptist Churches in the USA (ABC-USA), June, 2000.

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