Clergy Peer Groups

Clergy peer groups offer you and your peers a generative space to learn, share and reflect on your unique role in helping your congregations care for vocation-notice, name and nurture Christian vocations and the call to ordained ministry.

These regional peer groups provide you and your colleagues in ministry funds up to $20,000 to experiment with peer-directed learning and a disciplined learning process to build your capacity to create communities that care for vocation. 

Participating in a regional peer group requires a one or two year commitment among six to eight people and a completed application and $200 registration fee from each participant. In regional peer groups, leaders:

• Learn and encourage each other to grow in capacities and actions that nurture call and hold one another accountable over time for their learning
• Reflect on their call stories as well as their own practices for nurturing call
• Explore congregational vocational care practices that notice, name and nurture vocation and call
• Help each other develop and implement strategies that assist their ministry contexts to become practicing communities of call
• Establish strategies for integrating what they learn back into their ministry contexts
• Discover how to develop a robust culture that notices, names, and nurtures a sense of vocation among all members-especially with young people-in their ministry contexts

If you would like to learn more about what the peer group process entails or become a facilitator of a clergy peer group in your city or town:

• Click here to read A Guide for Getting Started: Clergy Peer Groups
• Click here to read the Facilitators' Guide to Clergy Peer Groups 

Please contact Stephen Lewis by e-mail or phone at 404-727-1411 if you have additional questions about starting a regional clergy peer group.