Are You (still) Called to Ministry?

Are you called to ministry?

Even if others have already said no:

because of your race?
your gender?
your health or disability?
your status as an LGBTQ person?
your age?
your history as an abused child/partner?
your call to less than traditional ministries?

Did you ask too many questions?
Did you think outside the box?
Did you report abuse?

We've heard it all before.
We've heard it all too often.

If you have been rejected for ordained ministry with your church for any of the reasons above, yet still feel the call to ministry strongly, we want to hear from you.

Today's church needs strong, compassionate, visionary leaders to meet the needs of this hurting world. Even broken vessels can become whole, and even wounded leaders can become healers.

If you would like another chance to explore your call to ministry within a supportive discerning community, please contact us. We have resources to help you find a new seminary, candidacy committee, or denomination. We can help you start again, and connect you to spiritual direction and other services to prepare you for the way forward.

Join us. Become a cornerstone.

Residential Program

New Cornerstones offers the option of a residential 're-discernment' year for people who are ready to explore how they may still be called to ordained ministry, although perhaps in a different path than they tried before.

Here in Hyde Park, Chicago, participants may join us at the GlobalServe Co-op in order to be physically closer to a supportive discernment community and multiple discernment resources, including seminaries, spiritual directors, counselors, concerned pastors, and other seminarians who have had to find new congregational and denominational homes.

This program seeks to be an affordable means for those who need time and space in order to consider their options.

If you find yourself unable to re-locate to Chicago, we also have some resources available to assist you.

Please note: The Residential Program is not a re-accrediting/ordaining body. An application process and a criminal background check are required, in order to protect against persons who were removed from ministry for acts of abuse towards another person.

For more information, please contact us by e-mail: info (at) newcornerstones (dot) org.