LEWISTON — The following individuals recently completed a unit of Clinical Pastoral Education at Central Maine Medical Center.

Jason Rexroad, an Evangelical Lutheran Church of America seminarian from the Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary in Columbia, S.C.; Isaac Lara, a Roman Catholic seminarian studying at Mundelein Seminary, Mundelein, Ill.; Lisa Biersch Cole, an Episcopal student at the Church Divinity School of the Pacific at Berkley, Calif.; Catherine Knowles, a Unitarian Universalist student at Andover-Newton Theological School in Newton, Mass., and a resident of Topsham; and Steven Cartwright, a Roman Catholic seminarian at Blessed John XXXIII National Seminary studying for the Diocese of Portland and a native of Boothbay Harbor.

CMMC’s clinical pastoral education program, one of only two such programs in Maine, is accredited through the U.S. Department of Education.

CMMC Director of Pastoral Care and Clinical Pastoral Education is Rev. Jay W. Turner.

Students in the graduate education program explore gifts for ministry, deepen self-understanding, develop skills in visitation, discern vocational direction, enhance leadership skills and meet denominational and seminary requirements.

In 400 hours of supervised ministry, CPE students learn through the action/reflection method of leaning to further integrate personal history, beliefs and the behavioral sciences in their care of persons. The program includes visitation, individual and group reflection, didactics, written materials, and pertinent readings.

For more information, call 795-2291.