2021 Clergy Profile

Name *

District *

Aurora

Chicago Northwestern

Chicago Southern

DeKalb

Elgin

Rockford

Church(es) currently serving *

Email *

Phone Number *

Family Information

Spouse Name

Spouse Employment

Children and other family living at home

Background Information

How are you serving/connecting with the wider community of your appointment? *

How are you serving in the U.M. connection?? *

Continuing education report (Please put your name and church at the top of the file). Please attach only pdfs or docs. NO .jpgs or .pngs

Personal Ministry Assessment

Share an overview of your strengths in ministry *

What ministry specializations or gifts would you like the cabinet to know? *

What reflections do you have following your most recent ministry review? What did you learn about yourself; what goals did you set for yourself? What plans are you making to increase your capacity for ministry in the coming year? *

Do you have plans for helping members to grow as disciples; to develop their lives in prayer, presence, gifts, service, and witness? If so, what are those plans? *

Do you have plans for making disciples and helping church members to share in that ministry? If so, what are those plans for evangelism, witness, and invitation in your community? *

What are you doing as a United Methodist pastor to help people understand the mission, ministry and distinctive characteristics of The United Methodist Church? How do you lead the congregation in living into its connectional life through apportionments, shared/cluster ministries and/or conference programming? *

How are you helping people hear their own call to ministry ? lay, licensed, or ordained? *

Health and Wellbeing

What are you currently reading? What books have you read this last year that left a lasting impact on you? *

How are you growing in your own Christian discipleship? *

What kind of physical exercise do you do? *

Do you have hobbies or other activities that you participate in on a regular basis? *

Do you regularly seek spiritual direction and/or are you in a colleague covenant group for support and accountability? *

Do you have any chronic medical conditions or health concerns that the cabinet needs to be aware of? If so, what and how does it affect your ministry? *

Appointment Conversation

What family or personal considerations does the cabinet need to know when projecting future appointments for you? Do you have limited itinerancy, and if so, what are those limits? *

Do you anticipate filling out an Appointment Change Consultation form this year? If so, why? *

How much longer do you see yourself in your current appointment? *

Given that an appointment change can happen any year, please share with us your top three considerations of importance for an appointment. (this can include information around family needs, geography, housing, salary, etc, though clergy should understand that appointments cannot be made guaranteeing all those considerations.) *

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