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Pastoral Residency Program
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The essence of the program
A healthy transition from seminary to full-blown ministry can be challenging. The overwhelming nature of new pastoral responsibilities, limited leadership training, and isolation from professional peers can be daunting. Building a foundation of healthy pastoral practices and habits is crucial to success and longevity in ministry.
The goal of the St. Paul Pastoral Residency Program is to help new pastors cultivate healthy pastoral practices and habits, and equip them for lifelong leadership in the Lutheran Church.
St. Paul’s Pastoral Residency Program offers an unparalleled opportunity for talented young pastors, in their first call, to serve in a stimulating setting surrounded by a growing congregation and innovative church leaders.
In a two-year term call, resident pastors encounter all the important facets of congregational life. Fully integrated into the pastoral team, they preach, teach, lead communion, baptize, marry, and conduct funeral services. They provide counseling and foster faithful living in others.
The program design
The structure of the Pastoral Residency Program is designed to promote personal growth. Individual interests and skills are prized and utilized.
The program is designed with a strong experiential component and an engaging reflection-based component:
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Innovative grant
The Lilly Endowment Inc. of Indianapolis, IN, invited St. Paul to apply for its innovative Transition into Ministry grant program. St. Paul is privileged to be one of only two ELCA congregations, and one of 20 churches in the country, invited to host a Pastoral Residency Program.
St. Paul’s first residency grant funded two groups of three resident pastors each, 2006-2008 and 2008-2010. A second grant awarded to St. Paul will fund two more groups of resident pastors, 2011-2013 and 2013-2015.
Previous residency groups
Stay connected with the resident pastors who have served in St. Paul congregation.
For more information
Contact Tammy Hermanson, residency administrator,
"This, quite simply, is what it means to be a Christian: to follow Jesus into the new world, God's new world, which God has thrown open for us. " ~N.T. Wright, theologian