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PM&M Placement Process

Completing the Spiritual Formation courses (MM-101 and MM-102) is the beginning of your internship placement preparation as well as the best support for all theological degree education. To begin an internship, earn at least 24 credit hours of your program for the M.Div., M.A., or M.T.S. degree by the beginning of your internship term.

Placement Types and Process Sections

Internship types:

  • PMM: ministry setting with a site lead (nonprofits or congregations)
    • Accordion (+) sections: 1, 2, 4
  • SPP: congregation where you are the lead pastor
    • Accordion (+) sections: 1, 3, 4

Based on your internship type, click the desired section of the placement process:

  1. Getting Started with PM&M (PMM & SPP)
  2. PMM Placement information & Paperwork (not lead pastors)
  3. Lead Pastor Placement information & Paperwork (SPP)
  4. Post Placement Confirmation Information (PMM & SPP)

Section 1: Getting Started

PMM & SPP

If you are seeking to begin an internship in Summer or Fall 2026, please communicate with the PM&M office by registering for the PM&M Information Video and a Q&A Session. The process for placements can begin as early as Fall 2025.

Your registration form is sent to the email address provided on the form and to the PM&M office automatically.

Your Leadership Fitness Questionnaire is due by Feb. 1 regardless of whether you are seeking a summer or fall/spring placement.

To submit your Leadership Fitness Questionnaire:

  • Follow the directions on the form. If you have questions, please contact the PM&M office.
  • To submit, use Secure Questionnaire Submission (https://wesleyseminary.egnyte.com/ul/TRVLtboHlv).
  • Complete the online form with your first and last names and your email address, then press continue.
  • Follow the directions on the screen, then press “send your file”.
  • Once your form and any necessary support documents have been reviewed, these document(s) will remain in this secure location visible only to the Director of PM&M and the Program Administrator for PM&M.

*All seminarians seeking to participate in a PM&M internship MUST complete this form as indicated.*

Section 2: PMM Placement Process

Not lead pastor potential placements

This tab is for PMM Internships in a nonprofit or in a congregation for those who are not the lead pastor.

*Seminarians will not be placed at their home church unless already employed there.*

*All seminarians seeking to participate in a PMM internship MUST complete forms as indicated.*

To organize your goals for a your placement, the Worksheet for Seminarian Placement Goals is provided.

Teaching settings consists of sites that are organizations, congregations, agencies, hospitals, nonprofits, hospice or senior care facilities, etc.

Seminarians may determine a placement site to propose for their PMM internship by three methods:

  • You might see a site in the PMM Ministry Setting Listed Sites provided on the Blackboard organization PMM-001. To gain access to this list, please contact the PM&M office.
  • Your place of employment might be a ministry setting. Please share the webpages Congregations & Nonprofits and Current Learning Partnerships with them and discuss how you will differentiate your usual work from your PMM internship ministry and mission work.
  • You might discover a site on your own that piques your interest. If this happens, then it is important to share more information about PMM internships. The webpages Congregations & Nonprofits and Current Learning Partnerships are the best resources to support a site in determining an ability to participate.

As you contact and acquaint yourself with site(s), you might share your profile (Placement application from tab 3), Worksheet for Seminarian Placement Goals, and, if desired, your resume with sites of interest so that the site might learn more about you and contemplate the possibilities for the internship. Schedule time to meet with the site contact and, if possible, the two potential learning partners: for congregations, the lay and clergy learning partners and for nonprofits, the site and mentoring learning partners.

Interviewing and discernment:

  1. Take time to learn more about the site and its opportunities for ministry engagements and discuss what you are seeking to learn. You might review the site’s webpage and social media.
  2. Get support from the PM&M office discernment support personnel listed to the right. Email both at the same time.
  3. Consider the site’s schedule, your class schedule, and the PM&M placement schedule:
    • Colloquies (your PM&M course) meet on Wednesday afternoons (1:30-3:30 p.m.) or evenings (7:15-9:15 p.m.).
    • Share with the site that your learning team—intern, clergy/mentoring partner, and lay/site partner—will need to participate in orientation together during the coming summer months. See Upcoming Events for PM&M placement process dates.

Once you identify a site that may provide your educational needs and is willing to partner with you, then confirm your proposed site using the accordion (+) tab: Confirm your proposed PMM site. More information on this paperwork may be found through the accordion (+) tab: Prepare your PMM placement proposal….

After discerning your potential placement site and securing your partnership with the site contact, provide information to the PM&M office about the ministry setting with all current information on the site by submitting the confirmation form below.

Once the confirmation is processed, the PM&M office will be in touch with the site, copying you.

Note: Other documents may be needed depending on your situation.

⇒Tip: It is best to submit paperwork by two weeks prior to deadlines.

*Seminarians will not be placed at their home church unless employed there.*

Your confirmation form is sent to each email address provided on the form and to the PM&M office automatically.

PMM placement proposals include at least these documents prepared by the appropriate persons—seminarian or site contact—and submitted to the PM&M office by the deadline for the desired term (summer or fall/spring):

**For seminarians promised a pastorate, please see the next section and contact the PM&M office.

Your next steps (non-lead pastors):

  1. Your Placement Application webform due by February 1.
  2. Your Wesley PMM Leadership Fitness Questionnaire due by February 1. This may be submitted using the secure portal.
  3. Your submitted confirmation of proposed site using the form in the prior accordion (+) tab. It is due before the internship term deadline.
  4. The PM&M office will request that the site contact return the appropriate site confirmation form. Details may be found on  Congregations and Nonprofits. If requested, the application-agreement must be complete including both site learning partner profiles. This is due before the internship term deadline.

Note: Other documents may be needed depending on the situation.

⇒Tip: It is best to submit paperwork by two weeks prior to deadlines.

Please note: Site documents are reviewed after receipt; site approval is not guaranteed.

*Seminarians will not be placed at their home church unless employed there.*

For Summer PMM, the placement proposal paperwork deadline is April 1. For an optimal experience, your PMM site should be the same for both summer terms.
Note That: There are typically no extensions granted for summer PMM deadlines.

For Fall/Spring PMM, the placement proposal paperwork deadline is May 1.
Note That: Seminarians requesting a fall/spring deadline extension MUST already be in conversation with the PM&M office prior to May 1. The extended deadline, by prior approval, for submitting a Fall/Spring placement proposal is June 1. Seminarians may not be able to participate in the fall/spring colloquy groups if PMM Placements are not finalized by June 1.

Please note: Placement proposals will be reviewed after receipt; placement approval is not guaranteed.

Section 3: Lead Pastor Placement Process (SPP)

To organize your goals for a your placement, the Worksheet for Seminarian Placement Goals is provided.

This page is for those who are the lead pastor of a congregation.

  1. The Information Sheet with all information currently known is due by Feb. 1.
  2. Ensure that you have submitted your leadership fitness questionnaire by Feb. 1. More information is on the accordion (+) tab Submit your Leadership Fitness Questionnaire.
  3. After your pastorate is set, determine who your clergy learning partner (an area clergy person of any denomination) and your lay learning partner from you pastorate will be and proceed to the next accordion (+) tab for the rest of your paperwork and submission deadlines.

Prepare your congregation and plan you schedule:

    • Colloquies (your course) meet on Wednesday afternoons (1:30-3:30 p.m. ET) and evenings (7:15-9:15 p.m. ET).
    • Share with your congregation that your learning team—intern, clergy partner, and lay partner—will need to attend to orientation during the coming summer months. See Upcoming Events for PM&M placement process dates.
    • Summer internships require orientation completion in late May.

Details about courses and orientation sessions may be found in the last two accordion (+) tabs below.

*All seminarians seeking to participate in an internship as a lead pastor MUST complete this form.*

Lead pastor placement documents are the responsibility of the seminarian to submit or ensure is submitted to the PM&M office by the deadline provided:

**For seminarians promised a pastorate, please contact the PM&M office.

  • For summer, your pastorate must begin by May 15 and all paperwork completed and submitted to the PM&M office by June 1. In preparation, remember that orientation must be completed before the internship begins.
  • For fall/spring, your pastorate must begin by July 1 and the paperwork completed and submitted to the PM&M office by August 15.

Once your pastorate begins or as soon as you have the information, provide these documents to the PM&M office:

  1. Your completed Lead Pastor Information Sheet.
  2. For the fall/spring internship: choose and email the PM&M office your colloquy meeting time for every Wednesdays: AFT (afternoon 1:30-3:30 p.m. ET) or EVE (evening 7:15-9:15 p.m. ET).
  3. The Clergy Learning Partner Profile from an area clergy person willing to partner with you. This person may be a retired pastor in your congregation. Note: This person must email confirmation of forming a partnership with the Student Lead Pastor, which may be accomplished by returning the form directly to the PM&M office copying the seminarian.
  4. The Lay Learning Partner Profile from a congregation member willing to partner with you.
  5. The Working Covenant reviewed and signed by all relevant participants.

Note That: There are typically no extensions granted for summer PM&M deadlines.

Please note: Placement paperwork will be reviewed after receipt; placement approval is not guaranteed.

Section 4: Post Placement Confirmation

PMM & SPP

Before preparing your CPT Form, please ensure you have received an official PM&M office placement confirmation email.

As an international seminarian, you need to be in communication with Wesley’s International Affairs Office to submit the appropriate documents to the PM&M office as soon as possible. This must be into the PM&M office at least three weeks prior to the start of your internship. It is best to submit them, for summer internships, by April 15 and for fall/spring internships, by May 15.

***Neglect of or delay in submitting this paperwork may jeopardize your internship going forward.

Details about the summer term, PM&M courses, and orientations may be found below.

Interns are required to attend all the ZOOM colloquy meetings throughout the internship. All meeting dates and times are ET and may be found on the course syllabus.

The dates for the summer internship are Sunday, June 7–Monday, August 10, 2026 (25 hours weekly).

See dates for learning partnership completion of Orientation Video review on Upcoming Events.

Details about PM&M courses and orientations may be found below.

Before registering, please ensure you have received an official PM&M office placement confirmation email.

Registering for fall online classes*:

  • Register for the colloquy course MM-360 for fall semester and MM-361 for spring semester.
  • Course times for both semesters is based on your choice for fall: afternoon (1:30-3:30 ET) or evening (7:15-9:15 ET).    Note: Needed changes to section selections MUST also be emailed to the PM&M office.

Registering for summer online classes*:

  • For summer 2026: PMM and SPP interns register for course MM-347.
  • For summer 2027: PMM and SPP interns register for course MM-348.

*Having trouble with registration? See the registration video or contact the Registrar’s Office.

Details about orientations may be found below.

Access to the orientation video will be sent to all learning team members who have received the official PM&M office placement confirmation email.

PM&M orientation is required for all learning team members. Each learning team member—intern, clergy or mentoring learning partner, and lay or site learning partner—must view the orientation video, which may be accomplished individually or as a team. For summer internships, questions may be posted on Blackboard to be addressed by the summer colloquy leader. For fall/spring internships, each member can attend the informal orientation Q&A session. An emailed acknowledgement from each member or the entire learning team must be received by the deadline or the internship placement may not go forth.

Deadlines for the orientation review acknowledgements and the two orientation Q&A session dates are on Upcoming Events.