Pastoral Education Services

Ramona Reynolds is a Baptist minister who has served as an educator in Honolulu, Hawaii, and New York City. She has also served as a Crisis Counselor for teenagers who are homeless and runaway, before beginning her ministry in chaplaincy and CPE.

A native of Kentucky, Ramona received a Bachelor of Arts degree from The University of Kentucky, and a Master of Divinity from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. Ramona completed an extended unit of CPE at Florida Hospital before going to Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas, Texas and completing two years of CPE residency. Ramona returned to Florida Hospital where she completed Supervisory CPE training and was certified by ACPE, Inc. as a CPE Supervisor in 2006. Ramona became Director of CPE at Florida Hospital in 2007.

Being from Kentucky Ramona enjoys NCAA basketball, horseracing and sharing her home with her son and her dog Maui.

Wes Monfalcone, a Baptist minister, served a church in Northern Virginia and hospitals in Louisville, Kentucky, Stuart, FL, and Savannah, GA before coming to Orlando.

A native of Virginia, Monfalcone received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Richmond and a Master of Divinity, Master of Theology and Doctor of Ministry degrees from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. A certified Supervisor in ACPE since 1979, he is also a Board Certified Chaplain in the Association of Professional Chaplains.

Wes served as Director of CPE at Florida Hospial from 1995 to 2007.

Alfred has been involved in various church ministries in the Seventh-day Adventist Church since 1983. This has involved roles including church pastor, conference youth director, church ministries director, ministerial director, and Conference president in the Adventist Church in Zambia. More recently, he has been involved in the chaplaincy ministries as well as Clinical Pastoral Education supervision at New York University Medical Center, in New York.

Alfred has enjoyed a variety of interests and life experiences over the years. The main areas of interest and involvment are teaching, outdoor pursuits, reading and social activities.

Alfred currently holds a Master of Divinity degree from Andrews University. He is a Board Certified Chaplain in the Association of Professional Chaplain. He is also a certified Associate Supervisor by the Association for Clinical Pastoral Education, Inc..

Jay Perez is a Seventh-Day Adventist minister who served churches in Texas before becoming a chaplain and later Director of Pastoral Care at Huguley Hospital in Fort Worth, Texas. While there, he helped the hospital gain accreditation as a CPE Center, and began a Residency program. He also served the Southwest Region of ACPE as chair of the Racial Ethnic Minority committee, and as a member of the Certification Committee.

A native of Puerto Rico, Jay received a bachelor of arts degree from Southwestern Adventist University in Keene, Texas, and a Master of Divinity degree from Andrews University. After completing a CPE Residency and Supervisory Residency at Parkland Health & Hospital System in Dallas, he became certified as a CPE Supervisor in 2000.

Jay served as Administrative Director of Pastoral Care at Florida Hospital before becoming Assistant Vice-President in 2006.

Ngan Ling Lung was born and raised in Hong Kong. She graduated from Hong Kong Polytechnic University with a degree in social work, and was employed as a youth center supervisor. She served as a campus chaplain for the Chinese University of Hong Kong for a year, where she had earned a Master of Divinity degree. Then she became the Youth Executive Secretary of the Christian Conference of Asia, an ecumenical group, to organize training and development programs for church youth throughout Asia. After three years in that position she entered CPE and became a chaplain at United Christian Hospital in Hong Kong for five years. In 2006 she traveled to California and became a Supervisory CPE Student at Stanford. Ngan Ling was certified as Associate Supervisor last April. She is commissioned for ministry by The Salvation Army.

“Lung,” her family name, means dragon in Chinese. The first character of her given name, “Ngan,” means a wild goose. The two flying animals in her names foretold the long journeys she has traveled in her life.