May 17, 2016 – Our speaker today was our own, Rev. Rob Dewey, Senior Chaplain of the Coastal Crisis Chaplaincy, which serves the Charleston area in times of need. Rob, who is an active member of our Charleston Rotary Club, started his career as a police officer, during which time he also served as a volunteer chaplain. He saw the need for crisis intervention for first responders and was ordained as a priest in the Episcopal Church in 1983.
In 1990, he started the Coastal Crisis Chaplaincy, a ministry that supports emergency responders and their families as well as the general public in times of crisis. He is the co-author of the Pastoral Crisis Intervention course for the International Crisis Incident Stress Foundation. Continue reading “Rob Dewey: Coastal Crisis Chaplaincy”