Pastoral Excellence

Karen Hayden
Karen Hayden
Director
Pastoral Excellence

The Center for Pastoral Excellence is responsible for enhancing pastoral effectiveness through continuing education events, peer learning, coaching, and training. Our goal is to support transformative leadership processes for clergy. The Center provides options designed to equip and develop pastors to lead congregational growth.

The Director for Pastoral Excellence along with the appointive Cabinet and the Board of Ordained Ministry, work to develop the processes of entering ministry, licensing and ordination, and equipping laity as pastoral leaders. In addition, the Center emphasizes the development and recruitment of younger and more diverse pastoral leadership.

For more information about the Center for Pastoral Excellence, feel free to contact:

Karen Hayden
Director of Pastoral Excellence
Email: Karen Hayden

Jenny Gragg
Executive Assistant for Pastoral Excellence
Email: Jenny Gragg

 

The Call

Click here to visit thecalltoministry.org.

The Hannah Project

Each Congregation is challenged to participate in the program of ministerial recruitment and nurture. For brochure click here and for the checklist click here.

Call Connector Training and Certification

“Call experiences” differ from person to person. One common ingredient in many call stories is how God uses other people to help prepare the way for the call or help in discernment after the call. Who in your church might better notice, name and nurture those God is calling to ministry as a vocation?

Who are call connectors?

The Hannah Project PDF    Things you Can do to Encourage the Culture of the Call

thecalltoministry.org  For more information on Mo Explo click here

Click here for Survey/Certification

Events

RENEW Couples Retreat

July 22-25, 2013. Refresh. Restore, Renew.

Click here for more information

Candidacy Summit

August 1, 2013. Candidacy Summit event is for persons who are in the candidacy process, who have already talked with their D.S. about entering the process.

Click here for event information

Converge 2013

more information to come

Exploration 2013

November 15-17, 2013. Denver, Colorado.

Exploration is a three-day event for young adults age 18-26 to hear, discern, and respond to God's call to ordained ministry and to explore their gifts for service as a deacon or elder in The United Methodist Church. If you have sensed God might be calling you to ordained ministry, wondered what ministry in The United Methodist Church is all about, would like help sifting through issues involved in an ordained vocation, or want to learn more about The United Methodist seminaries and theological schools, this gathering is for you.

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Resources

Board of Ordained Ministry Forms

For more information about the Board of ordained ministry, please visit our Board of ordained ministry section. 

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