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 and checklist click here.

Call Connector Meetings

“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? We invite you to learn more about “call connectors.”

Who are call connectors?

Candidacy for Ministry

The 1st Annual Candidacy Summit for the Missouri Annual Conference is set for August 2-4 at Camp Jo-Ota. This event is for persons in the candidacy process. The weekend will include an introduction to the conference, worship, spiritual formation, psychological evaluations, PEER GROUP with mentors, etc.

PLD Next Peer Groups

For those a part of the Methodist tradition, Pastoral Leadership Development peer groups are reminiscent of John Wesley’s class meetings—providing support and accountability for all leaders desiring to share Christ’s message and make disciples for the transformation of the world. PLD instills a process that resonates throughout congregational life.  PLD fosters life-long learning of pastors and deeply impacts laity’s interest and involvement in learning. 

For more information click here

Coaching Our Clergy

We are offering a new, more intensive approach to coaching in our conference starting in 2012. Previously we included introductory coach training and we are now pleased to offer complete basic coach training. For more information click here.

Congregational Development Team College-age Ministry Grant Application

Click here for application (PDF)

2012 Cole Summer Seminary Ministerial Internship

Board of Ordained Ministry Forms

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

Renew Retreat

United Methodist Clergy have been attending Renew sessions since 2003. Renew will give you two rare and precious gifts: Time and Space. You will have “Time” to rest, to talk together and to reflect. You will have “Space” to be away from the pace of the daily routine. For more information click here.

Converge

The Converge Experience is a chance to hear from God.  We want to be in a place to renew, refresh and revitalize ourselves.  As pastors we have so many voices speaking into our lives and competing for our time, attention and passion.  CONVERGE is a 48 hour experience to get away from our routine so it won't seem so routine when we return to it.  It is more about inspiration than information. A gathering of pastors for pastors. September  12-14. For more information click here.