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
Camino de Santiago
Is the Camino Calling You? Then consider joining us on a guided pilgrimage on the Camino Portuguese, September 24-October 2, 2025. This unique experience offers an approach that integrates the practical and spiritual considerations of pilgrimage. Registration Deadline is Jan. 26, 2025.
Group Spiritual Direction for Women in Ministry
Life in ministry is challenging. Life in ministry during the last few years has been challenging. Life in ministry during the last few years as a woman has been challenging. Throw in the normal ebbs and flows of life, and the need for rest and recuperation becomes vital.
Take time for a group spiritual direction experience curated especially for women in ministry. In this group you will have space to connect to other women in ministry, receive care, and share your stories of the beauties and deep pains of this unique vocation.
Groups are starting in January and February 2025.
Endings, Beginnings, and Liminal Spaces: Navigating Times of Transition
Transitions are a part of daily life, but often they create a sense of disorientation. Learn how to navigate beginnings, endings, and the liminal spaces that lie in between.
We’ll explore rituals to help us grieve, celebrate, and release so that we can move forward with freedom and clarity, as well as exercises to integrate gifts from past seasons into our present lives.
The Stories We Tell About Our Bodies
You’re invited to reflect on the narratives you’ve collected about your body & discover a story that makes space for the body you actually have as one who bears the image of God. This retreat will utilize story work, spiritual direction, & embodied practices to create a safe and welcoming place for healing and growth.
Entering into the Wilderness of Lent
It’s in the wilderness that we meet with the tension points of our faith. And it’s in the wilderness that our true selves are revealed. Our need for God is exposed.
Join in for this half day retreat, to enter intentionally into the wilderness that is Lent.
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.