Curacy Express: A Training Resource for New Clergy - Softcover

Lewis, Robert Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1498295290 ISBN 13: 9781498295291

Publisher: Wipf and Stock, 2016

Synopsis

The twenty-first-century church is increasingly placing recently trained seminary or locally trained clergy in smaller churches where they must stand alone without the training under a senior pastor. Since leadership in a church and academic preparation in seminary are two very different things, the church historically developed a history of offering "curacies," or training assistantships, to help blend the two disciplines and merge classroom knowledge into practical application. Today, these formal assistantships are mostly a thing of the past. Curacy Express: A Training Resource for New Clergy reconfigures this training into a current model. New clergy serving in their own church and mentor clergy serving in another church work together over a course of thirty-three self-paced learning modules. In each module, the newly ordained person gains valuable skills, mentor's observations and reflections, new confidence, and leadership formation. The result is clergy trained to be competent and confident in their roles as clergy-in-charge.

About this title

About the Author

The Reverend Dr. Robert Michael Lewis currently serves in the Episcopal Diocese of Nebraska and has served as Priest-in-Charge of three Episcopal churches. He lives in Grand Island, Nebraska.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wipf and Stock
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1498295290
• ISBN 13: 9781498295291
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 142