Spiritual Direction for Clergy on the Gulf Coast
Pastoral Excellence Project offers Katrina Zone Ministers safe space to lament, pray, rejoice
Ordained Mississippi clergy can receive twelve once-a-month sessions with a trained spiritual director beginning in August, 2010. The Pastoral Excellence Project offers this ministry at no charge to participants with funding from the Lilly Endowment, Inc.
What is Spiritual Direction?
Different from the problem-solving focus of therapy, counseling, or coaching, spiritual direction assists you to sense the movements and callings of God in your life. In one-hour sessions with a listener specially trained to hear your story, you can experience:
• Complete confidentiality
• prayer and other spiritual practices
• acceptance of your faith tradition, values, theology, and spiritual experiences
• silence for listening to God
Who can participate?
Spiritual Direction for Clergy on the Gulf Coast is open to the ordained of any faith tradition or denomination who
• serve in Jackson, Harrison, Hancock, George, Stone, or Pearl River counties
• seek to explore their relationship with God
• commit to attending all twelve sessions of spiritual direction.
When and where is Spiritual Direction for Gulf Coast Clergy?
Appointments for one-hour sessions are available between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. on the following dates:
2010 Dates
August 17, September 13, October 19, November 16, December 14
2011 Dates
January 11, February 15, March 15, April 12, May 17, June 14, July 19
Clergy will share with spiritual directors in quiet, comfortable spaces appropriate for confidential conversation at the following churches:
Main Street United Methodist Church
162 Main Street
Bay St. Louis, Mississippi
First United Methodist Church
2301 15th Street
Gulfport, Mississippi
St. Paul United Methodist Church
6716 Bienville Road
Ocean Springs, Mississippi
Application deadline is August 2, 2010, but please submit application as soon as possible for optimal consideration.
Applications are available by contacting
Rev. Sherry Johnson,
Associate Director
Center for Ministry
johnssa@millsaps.edu
(601) 974-1436
Or you may download an application Below: