Biography:

Dr. Chelbegean is a registered Nurse, an ordained SDA Church Pastor, and NCFR Certified Family Life Educator.

Dr. Chelbegean has a broad experience in teaching, ministerial experience, counseling and medical work.

Teaching  Assistant at LLU:   Christian Counseling, Parenting, Cross-cultural Family Values, Theory and Practice in MFt and Law and Ethics

Principal/Professor:  Onesimus Adventist High School, Craiova, Romania.   Classes taught:  Latin, Romanian Language & Literature, Religion, English, French, Music

Ministerial experience includes being a pastor, chaplain, Youth & Family Life Director, and Family Counselor.  He has also been an assistant director at the Christian Counseling Centers Internations, Riverside, CA, coordinating activity of 15 MFT interns and trainees.

He's also been a Behavioral Health Specialist.

Professional Affiliations:   National Council on Family Relations,  Adventist Association of Family Life Professionals, American Association of Christian Counselors, American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy, California Association of Marriage and Family  Therapists.

Current Research or Professional Activities:

Publications:  Witnessing Unconditional Love, Majesty Press, Chicago;  Field Flowers, 2003;  Stairway to Heaven - youth songs, 1996; Small Treatise of Cardiology 1993 and others.

 Articles in  Church Paper:  Immigrant Christian families at the crossroad, 2010;  Culture, faith and family, 2010.
Public Presentations:   Holistic Growth, Angry Saints, The Adventist Family  in the Globalization Era, Our Children and Media, The Christian Immigrant Family, Gender Roles and Cultural hermeneutics and Christ and Culture.