
Thriving Clergy


Thriving Clergy: Pastorwell
“Sometimes pastors don’t avail themselves of things until there is a crisis; we’re trying to encourage pastors to be thinking ahead about what kinds of habits of mind and heart they can begin to make part of their life before there’s a crisis,”

The pastors’ pastors
Clergy care coordinators reach out to pastors and their families with prayers and calls and facilitate pastors’ access to resources like counseling or educational funding.

Wesleyan Coaching Network 2.0
“Coaching is a powerful experience, both to coach and to be coached, that will radically transform someone’s journey,” said Bogear.

Emotional Healthy Leader
Pastors have the rare honor of ministering to people at the most significant moments of their lives. We desire to prepare, develop and equip knowledgeable, skilled, and spirit-filled ministers for such moments. Learn more about the call to ministry.

Clergy Care Programs & Resources
Central location for the Clergy Care programs from the Education & Clergy Development team.

She said, he said: handing the mic to pastors’ spouses
While pastors’ spouses are as much in the spotlight as their partners, they’re less often handed a live microphone and an empty stage. We wanted to find out what pastor’s spouses – both pastors’ husbands and pastors’ wives – had to say about life in

The most significant relationship
Research shows that the most significant relationship for pastors’ well-being is with their congregations.

Thrive in Five – Spiritual – Bodily Spirituality: Five Reasons to Care
Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies. Apostle Paul, 1 Cor. 6:19-20 Bodily Spirituality: Five Reasons to...
Education & Clergy Development
ECD Home Thriving Clergy Ministerial Preparation Ministerio de Educación en Español Wesleyan Higher Education Thrive Financial Initiative Women in Ministry The Education and Clergy Development Division of The Wesleyan Church: Develops Wesleyan clergy to be healthy,...
Thriving clergy seminar points to solutions
Through the Thrive Financial Initiative pastors who experience financial stresses can find help spiritually, intellectually, relationally, and financially.

Saturday Seminars overflow at General Conference 2016
On the first afternoon of General Conference in Buffalo, N.Y., full-to-overflowing crowds were rewarded with high quality seminars.