Wesley welcomes and greatly appreciates the support of congregations and nonprofits in guiding our future ministry leaders.
Our partnerships help prepare seminarians to answer the call of God for service. Our God expects much from us in living and proclaiming the Gospel in diverse contexts and methods. So too, Wesley DC asks a lot from the Learning Partners who guide seminarian interns along their journey of ministerial, spiritual, and leadership formation.
The process for ministry settings to become partners with Wesley DC seminarians in preparation for the ministry field ahead of them may be found under the following accordion (+) tabs #1 and #2. The process for ministry settings to complete a placement with a specific seminarian may be found under the following accordion (+) tabs #3: for congregations and #4 for nonprofits.
#1:First Steps for Teaching Settings
Sites considered to be teaching ministry settings consist of churches or congregations and nonprofits such as hospitals, schools, retirement communities, hospices, and campus ministries.
All teaching ministry settings should provide two people to work with placed seminarian intern(s): congregations provide a clergy and a lay learning partner and nonprofits provide a mentoring and a site learning partner. The site contact person may be a learning partner.
More details on learning partner credentials, the components that make contextual education valuable, and the commitment by sites and seminarian interns are shared in these documents:
To begin the process to add your site to the PMM Ministry Setting Listed Sites, please proceed to tab #2 “Submit site interest form for potential addition to the PMM Ministry Setting Listed Sites”.
#2:Submit site interest form for potential addition to the PMM Ministry Setting Listed Sites
During the placement process, the PM&M office provides a list of sites for seminarians to peruse. To provide information that would help potential interns consider your site while discerning placement options, please complete the form below. Your responses will automatically be sent to the email address provided and to the PM&M office.
#3:Congregation site confirmation for a potential internship…
Note: Congregations that offer nonprofit options may complete one or both applications.
Use this tab when your ministry setting is new, has learning partner change(s), OR has NOT hosted an intern for the prior internship year.
To complete the seminarian’s placement proposal with your congregational ministry setting:
- Select the clergy and lay learning partner who will participate in the learning partnership—intern, clergy partner, and lay partner. The contact person may or may not be a member of the learning partnership.
- The clergy learning partner must meet religious affiliation or congregational standards for a pastoral leadership position, be in the current position for more than one year, and have completed a form of theological study at least one year prior to the start of a potential internship.
- The lay learning partner must be someone dedicated to supporting this endeavor with their time and in sharing personal and setting insights and is not a professional theologian or minister.
- To provide the confirmation for the seminarian’s placement proposal with your ministry setting, please download and complete the form PM&M Site Application-Agreement Form ~ Congregation and return it to the PM&M office (PMMAssistant@WesleySeminary.edu). To download, click on the document name (above), then select the “save” or “save as” button on the menu bar.
For sites providing an internship for a second seminarian intern, please return the Site Multiple PMM Intern Plan as well as the confirmation form above. To download, click on the document name (above), then select the “save” or “save as” button on the menu bar.
Once all paperwork is received the ministry setting and then placement proposal will be considered.
Confirmation of placement with a ministry setting is emailed to the seminarian copying the site’s contact and both learning partners.
#4:Nonprofit site confirmation for a potential internship…
Use this tab when your ministry setting is new, has learning partner change(s), OR has NOT hosted an intern for the prior internship year.
To complete the seminarian’s placement proposal with your nonprofit ministry setting:
- Select the mentoring and site learning partners who will participate in the learning partnership—intern, mentoring partner, and site partner. The contact person may or may not be a member of the learning partnership.
- The mentoring learning partner must have a minimum of three years of leadership experience and have been with the site for more than one year.
- The site learning partner must be someone dedicated to supporting this endeavor with their time and in sharing personal and setting insights and is not a professional theologian or minister.
- To provide the confirmation for the seminarian’s placement proposal with your ministry setting, please download and complete the form: PM&M Site Application-Agreement Form ~ Nonprofit and return it to the PM&M office (PMMAssistant@WesleySeminary.edu). To download, click on the document name (above), then select the “save” or “save as” button on the menu bar.
For sites providing an internship for a second seminarian intern, please return the Site Multiple PMM Intern Plan as well as the confirmation form above. To download, click on the document name (above), then select the “save” or “save as” button on the menu bar.
Once all paperwork is received the ministry setting and then placement proposal will be considered.
Confirmation of placement with a ministry setting is emailed to the seminarian copying the site’s contact and both learning partners.
#5:For currently PM&M approved sites confirming a potential internship…
Ministry settings are qualified to submit this site confirmation form, only if:
- The site is already an approved PMM site (approved: a PMM internship last year or adding a second seminarian intern), AND
- The site learning partners are the same persons on the site’s current application-agreement that is on file in the PM&M office.
**If both of these conditions apply, then proceed; otherwise, use one of the two prior tabs that applies to your site type (congregation or nonprofit) to complete the site confirmation for the placement proposal.
With multiple interns who will engage with the same learning partners, please return the Site Multiple PMM Intern Plan as well as the confirmation form below. To download, click on the document name (above) and select the “save” or “save as” button on the menu bar, then proceed to the webform below.
To provide the confirmation for the seminarian’s placement proposal with your ministry setting, please complete the PM&M Approved Site Confirmation Form below.
Once all paperwork is received the placement proposal will be considered. Confirmation of placement with a ministry setting is emailed to the seminarian copying the site contact and both learning partners.
The PM&M faculty and staff are available to advise and assist you with all aspects of the PM&M program. The PM&M office is located at Wesley’s main campus in the Kresge building, office suite K-107. Please feel free to contact us.
Rev. Dr. Jonathan Page PM&M Director JPage@WesleySeminary.edu
Rev. Dr. Nick Works PM&M Advisor NWorks@WesleySeminary.edu
Dr. Emily Peck & Dr. Nick Works Support to match vocational goals to placement types PMMDiscernment@WesleySeminary.edu.
Rev. Debra M. Whitten PM&M Program Administrator PMMAssistant@WesleySeminary.edu