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The Oates Award
This year's Oates Award recipient, Dr. C. Roy Woodruff, former Executive Director of the American Association of Pastoral Counselors, will be recognized and speak during the annual Wayne E. Oates Award Program and Banquet. The topic of his address will be "Pastoral Counseling: Identity in the Context of Ambiguity." The event will occur on September 30, 2004 at Kye's, 500 Missouri Avenue, Jeffersonville, Indiana (on I-65 across the river from Louisville, Kentucky). For reservations to attend, call the Oates Institute at 502-459-2370. Tickets, which include dinner, are $20 in advance and $25 at the door (full time students are half price). Dr. C. Roy Woodruff was born in Anniston, Alabama, and is a graduate of the University of Alabama. Ordained to the ministry as a Southern Baptist, Dr. Woodruff received a Bachelor of Divinity degree and a Doctor of Philosophy degree from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, KY. His Ph.D. (1966) was in Psychology of Religion and Pastoral Care, which he earned while studying and serving as Teaching Fellow with Dr. Wayne E. Oates. Dr. Woodruff is certified as a Diplomate in the American Association of Pastoral Counselors and is a Licensed Professional Counselor in the Commonwealth of Virginia. He served as President of the Coalition on Ministry in Specialized Settings, 1996-2000, and he was appointed by the Governor to the Virginia Board of Professional Counselors, 1987-1995, serving as Chair 1993-1995. Among other lectureships, Dr. Woodruff taught as the Wayne E. Oates Visiting Professor at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in 1994, and was the featured lecturer on pastoral care and counseling at the Annual Clergy Conference sponsored by Soongsil University in Seoul, Korea, in January of 2000. He is the author of numerous publications, and is listed in Who’s Who in America, as well as other biographical publications. Dr. Woodruff's distinguished career has included hospital chaplaincies in psychiatric and general medical settings, supervision of clinical pastoral education, teaching as both allied health professions professor and seminary professor, and serving as a pastoral counselor and director of a pastoral counseling center. In 1998, he assumed the Executive Director position at the American Association of Pastoral Counselors, an international professional credentialing and advocacy organization based in Fairfax, Virginia. He retired from that position in 2003. Dr. Woodruff is married to the former Kay Carolyn Jernigan of Pensacola, Florida, and they now reside in Northern Virginia in the community of Burke Centre. They have two adult married sons and are active members of the Vienna Baptist Church, where Dr. Woodruff serves as Volunteer Pastoral Associate. The Wayne Oates Award was established in 1989 by the Long Run Baptist Association in Louisville, Kentucky and has continued as an annual recognition since its beginning. In 2003 the Oates Institute became a joint sponsor of this award and is committed to help continue this tradition and promote it nationally. The Wayne Oates Award is given to a person that has demonstrated exceptional qualities in the following three areas of Pastoral Care:
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