Congregations and Nonprofits

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 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:

• Ministry Setting FAQ's, Requirements, & Attributes
• Values of Contextual Education
• Time Expectations

To begin the process to add your site to the PMM Ministry Setting Listed Sites, please proceed to the next accordion (+) tab.

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.

Note: Congregations that offer nonprofit options may complete one or both applications.

Used 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:

1. 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.
2. 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.

Once all paperwork is received the ministry setting and then placement proposal will be considered.

Confirmation of placement with a ministry is emailed to the seminarian copying the site's contact and both learning partners.

Used this tab when your site is new, has learning partner changes, OR has NOT hosted an intern for the prior internship year.

To complete the seminarian’s placement proposal with your nonprofit ministry setting:

1. 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.
2. 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.

Once all paperwork is received the site and then placement proposal will be considered.

Confirmation of placement at a site is emailed to the seminarian copying the site's contact and both learning partners.

Ministry settings are qualified to submit this site confirmation form, if:

1. The site is already an approved PMM site (approved: another new partnership or a PMM internship last year), AND
2. The site is not changing either learning partner on the application-agreement 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.

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 at a site is emailed to the seminarian copying the site contact and both learning partners.