Join a Pastoral Residency

Embark on your pastoral journey in a healthy church committed to helping pastors start well.
WHAT - Pastoral Residencies
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Pastoral Residencies
Preparing Future Pastors

Each church in the Made to Flourish residency network offers a two to three ­year full-time paid mentoring residency designed to train and equip church leaders of tomorrow.

Within each local church, residents are given responsibility, mentored by senior leaders, and provided a healthy church environment to learn, grow, and practice vocational pastoral ministry. Our residency program brings together the best of seminary education and the local church experience in preparing future church leaders for life-long faithfulness in ministry.

Six Characteristics of a Pastoral Residency

  • Prepares pastors for a lifetime of pastoral service
  • Teaches a theology of faith, work, and economic wisdom
  • Involves pastoral employment for the resident
  • Lasts a minimum of two-years
  • Occurs after graduation or during degree completion
  • Based in a local church
Why - purpose
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Pastoral Residencies
Pastoral work is hard, it’s important to start well

Just as teaching hospitals provide real-life experience for young, talented doctors, a pastoral residency provides an irreplaceable learning laboratory for you to grow in leadership, preaching, administration, and godly character.

By the numbers.

54
programs supported across the country
107
pastors trained IN
local churches
18
NEW RESIDENCIES
LAUNCHED IN 2024

"I watched my father, a gunsmith, slowly disconnect & eventually leave the church altogether because he consistently felt like a low-grade believer. Pastor after pastor demanded that he had to serve in the ordained ministries of the church if he was really honoring God. So I’m pretty stoked to be a part of a network that says to men like my father, "Your workplace is your mission; it is your Christian life.”

Pastor Tom southerland
Portland Network
How - Application process & requirements
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Pastoral Residencies
How do I join a Pastoral Residency?
Step 1.

Find residencies

Determine the program(s) you wish to apply to using the preference filters in the next section.

Step 2.

Application PDF

Complete your application document and save as a PDF in accordance with the requirements detailed below.

Step 3.

Application form

Complete the application form and upload your PDF to all your selected churches in one step.

Step 4.

Get hired

We'll send your application to your selected churches who will contact you with next steps and/or additional requirements.

Application Document Requirements

Your application should include the following information, and be
formatted as a single-spaced PDF that does not exceed 5 pages in length.

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Application document Format
  • Single-spaced
  • Does not exceed five pages in length
  • PDF file format
Competence
  • List your educational background.
  • List your work experience.
  • Tell us about any awards you have received throughout your educational experience.
  • In what ways have you or are you currently demonstrating leadership?
  • How would you describe your strengths and weaknesses?
Character
  • Tell us about your journey of faith.
  • How have you been involved in your local church – past and present?
  • What is something you have learned recently from the Word of God?
  • What has God been teaching you lately?
  • Read any good books lately? Tell us about one or two of them. (Exclude the Bible on this answer.)
  • What do you like to do for fun?
calling
  • Tell us about your sense of calling. Where and how do you sense God is directing you to serve Him after graduation from seminary?
  • What are 3-5 guiding principles in your developing philosophy of ministry?
  • What is your current area of focus in the MDiv program? (If applicable)
  • Are you a committed paedobaptist or credobaptist?
  • Do you subscribe to a confession / statement of faith? Which ones?
Current Residencies
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Pastoral Residencies
Find Your Pastoral Residency

Our network of residency churches supports 53 programs across the country. Churches in our network have been vetted and are being supported by Made to Flourish in the running of their programs.

1. Submit an Application to selected church

Create a document—five single-spaced pages in length or less—with the information outlined in the application details section, and send it to the contact at the church you are applying.

2. Get a Professor recommendation

Coordinate with a professor at your college or seminary and have them complete the pastoral residency recommendation.

3. GET A PASTORAL recommendation

Coordinate with your pastor, locally or your home church, and have them complete the pastoral residency recommendation.

4. Interview on Your campus

When selected, attend a one-hour interview [copy missing].

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Briarcliff Church

Kansas City, MO
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Missouri
Accepting Applications
not accepting applications
no current Openings

* still accepts applications to keep on file

Residency Details
Denomination
SBC
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Start date
2/8/2024
Not Specified
NA
App deadliine
 Not Specified
NA
Length
—  Not Specified
2 years
Planting Focus
No
Community
Suburban
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Description

More information coming soon!

Our church is in suburban Kansas City. We serve a multi-cultural, multi-generational community with the goal of making disciples in all areas of life

Christ Community Church

Kansas City Metro Area
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Kansas, Missouri
Accepting Applications
not accepting applications
no current Openings

* still accepts applications to keep on file

Residency Details
Denomination
EFCA
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Start date
6/1/2024
Not Specified
NA
App deadliine
 Not Specified
NA
Length
—  Not Specified
2 years
Planting Focus
No
Community
Suburban
—  Not Specified
Description

More information coming soon!

Christ Church Sierra Madre

Sierra Madre, CA
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California
Accepting Applications
not accepting applications
no current Openings

* still accepts applications to keep on file

Residency Details
Denomination
Nondenominational
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Start date
2/8/2024
Not Specified
NA
App deadliine
 Not Specified
NA
Length
—  Not Specified
Planting Focus
No
Community
Suburban
—  Not Specified
Description

More information coming soon!

We are a Gospel-centered church of about 250 regular attenders in Sierra Madre, a suburb of Los Angeles.

Five Stones Community Church

Ashland, OH
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Ohio
Accepting Applications
not accepting applications
no current Openings

* still accepts applications to keep on file

Residency Details
Denomination
The Bretheren Church
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Start date
6/1/2024
Not Specified
NA
App deadliine
 Not Specified
NA
Length
—  Not Specified
2 years
Planting Focus
No
Community
College Town
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Description

More information coming soon!

Our congregation meets on a university campus and is also currently exploring beginning a second campus in a neighborhood across town by merging with an older congregation there. Our multi-generational congregation with a diversity of cultural and generational perspectives offers a dynamic range of exposure to many unique aspects of church and community ministry.

Christ City Church

Dallas, TX
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Texas
Accepting Applications
not accepting applications
no current Openings

* still accepts applications to keep on file

Residency Details
Denomination
Acts 29
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Start date
1/1/2025
Not Specified
NA
App deadliine
 Not Specified
NA
Length
—  Not Specified
3 years
Planting Focus
Optional
Community
Urban
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Description

More information coming soon!

Walnut Creek Presbyterian Church

Walnut Creek, CA
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California
Accepting Applications
not accepting applications
no current Openings

* still accepts applications to keep on file

Residency Details
Denomination
ECO Presbyterian
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Start date
7/1/2024
Not Specified
NA
App deadliine
 Not Specified
NA
Length
—  Not Specified
2 years
Planting Focus
Optional
Community
Suburban
—  Not Specified
Description

More information coming soon!

We are a multi-generational and multi-ethnic church in downtown Walnut Creek, a suburb of San Francisco. We seeks to draw as many people as possible into an ever-deepening relationship with Jesus and authentic community with one another.

Creekside Community Church

Gainesville, FL
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Florida
Accepting Applications
not accepting applications
no current Openings

* still accepts applications to keep on file

Residency Details
Denomination
EFCA
—  Not Specified
Start date
6/1/2025
Not Specified
NA
App deadliine
 Not Specified
NA
Length
—  Not Specified
2 years
Planting Focus
No
Community
College Town
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Description

More information coming soon!

Creekside has a long history of investing in the next generation of pastors and ministry leaders. We're exist in a university town, learning to treasure Jesus Christ for the good of all people.

Church of the Cross

Boston, MA
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Massachusetts
Accepting Applications
not accepting applications
no current Openings

* still accepts applications to keep on file

Residency Details
Denomination
ACNA
—  Not Specified
Start date
7/1/2024
Not Specified
NA
App deadliine
 Not Specified
NA
1/20/2024
Length
—  Not Specified
3 years
Planting Focus
No
Community
Urban
—  Not Specified
Description

More information coming soon!

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