Senior Chaplain Terry Morgan is a minister with almost 25 years of experience. He has spent the last 10 years as a law enforcement Chaplain. He is currently the Senior Chaplain and Executive Director for the Placer County Law Enforcement Chaplaincy, an agency with 32 paid and volunteer chaplains. He works as a first responder to crisis situations to the community and to law enforcement officers and their families and is a gifted teacher, lecturer and preacher with a wide range of experience to draw from.

The law enforcement Chaplain’s role can often be a very difficult one. His or her public image is one of doing invocation prayers over special events for the law enforcement agency they serve. However, this is only a very small part of their function. The law enforcement Chaplain is called upon to help to bring a calming influence at traumatic crime scenes, or when a person’s loved one has died. The Chaplain is very often that one that is called upon to give death notifications, or to sit with a bereaved loved one. The majority of their time is devoted to helping the community and/or law enforcement officers through tragedies and traumatic events. The mission of the Placer County Chaplaincy involves taking care of the spiritual, emotional, and mental needs of our law enforcement, as well as providing care and comfort through crisis and trauma counseling for our community. It takes a lot of training and education to reach a point where the Chaplain is an asset to a police or Sheriffs department, and a resource for them to call upon 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Chaplain Morgan earned his Masters degree in Ministry in Public Safety from Trinity Biblical University and his Bachelors degree in Theology from Pacific Coast Bible College. He is board certified in Emergency Crisis Response through The American Academy of Experts in Traumatic Stress. Chaplain Morgan is a Senior Level Chaplain with the International Conference of Police Chaplains (ICPC), and is often asked to do training seminars for them. He is a certified member of the International Critical Incident Stress Foundation. He has taught Bible College courses, and teaches crisis counseling for chaplains. He is an expert in dealing with traumatic stress, and stress management, and teaches various ministries how to help their own parishioners through critical incidents, crisis, and traumatic events, while exercising good stress management techniques and preventing compassion fatigue or burn out in their ministers. Chaplain Morgan is a regular contributing author to the on-line magazine “Officer.Com”.

First responders are called upon after a disaster, whether man-made or natural. Chaplain Morgan was asked by the ICPC and the state of Louisiana to respond to the New Orleans Police Department after Hurricane Katrina. Chaplain Morgan was one of the first Chaplains in New Orleans after the disaster. He worked with many officers who had lost everything they owned, and some who had lost loved ones to the flooding due to the hurricane. He was on the ground in Louisiana when Hurricane Rita blew through, and continued working with law enforcement personnel.

When asked why he does what he does, Chaplain Morgan said, “Officers wear protective vests over their hearts to protect them while they are on the job. The Chaplain’s role is to protect their hearts when they go off duty making sure they go home to their families healthy; mentally, spiritually and emotionally. As long as I can make a difference for one more officer, I will continue this worthwhile ministry.”