Care for Pastors
Life in ministry has always had its challenges, but during the last few years pastoral work has taken on new levels of complications, stressors, and pain. In 2022, Barna found that 42% of the pastors they surveyed had considered leaving full-time ministry that year. While there are legitimate causes for this increase, I find myself often wondering if the stressors of the past years have functioned more as a revelation than causation. What we are discovering about pastoring in western culture is often a way that leads to exhaustion, burnout, faith deconstruction, and in extreme circumstances abuse and bullying. This is not the light yoke that Jesus speaks about in Matthew 11.
So many pastors deeply desire a different way of being, but just don’t know how to begin. I offer support for pastors as they navigate new pathways.
Current Opportunities
Pilgrimage as Spiritual Practice: Discovering Sacred Wandering in Modern Times
The act of pilgrimage has a storied history, with countless tales of folks embarking on sacred wanderings to places of spiritual significance. Today we see a resurgence of this practice via trails like the Camino de Santiago, but how do we engage in pilgrimage as a spiritual practice in light of the lives we actually have?
| Join Jen Manglos as she offers this course with The Center for Transforming Engagement, an organization dedicated to supporting pastors, ministry leaders, community builders, and lifelong learners through trainings, courses, etc. This course will offer a guided pilgrimage experience along with simple ways to incorporate a spiritual practice of pilgrimage into daily life. |
Individual Spiritual Direction
One on one meetings for you to process through your experience of God in the midst of your vocation. This is a prayerful space for you to be cared for and listened to, as we both seek out God’s fingerprints.
Group Direction for Pastors
These groups provide safe space to debrief with others in the ministry world. This isn’t a group to give advice, but a listening space to connect to others in ministry, receive care, and share your stories of the beauties and deep pains of this unique vocation.
Sabbatical Planning
Embarking on a sabbatical can be both an exciting and overwhelming possibility. I offer support from the planning stages to the sabbatical time itself through to re-entry post sabbatical. Support is customized to each pastor’s unique needs. Email Jen to connect and discover what your sabbatical could look like.
Consulting
With over 20 years of experience in ministry, I offer consulting to pastors on areas of spiritual development and formation, embodied faith, spiritual practices, sermon series development, house churches, urban church communities, Church Trauma & Faith Deconstruction, and pilgrimage.