Welcome to the Transition into Ministry Web site!

Transition into Ministry is the name of a Lilly Endowment funded program that seeks to provide resources to pastors in their earliest years of ministry (More history and background available here).

Our hope for this web site is that it would generate an online community of pastors in their first decade of ministry where experience, wisdom, and questions would be freely shared and a where friendships between pastors would flourish.  There is a login section for all those who are now or have been participants in a TiM program. 

If you are not a participant in a TiM program, we still want you to become a part of our online community.  You are now on the public side of the site which gives you access to a growing body of information, reflections, and resources on the early years of ministry.  You’re also invited to sign for the occasional TiM email newletter.

Recent Entries from TiM Blog

Rev. Laura Mariko Cheifetz named director of the Leading Generations initiative

Posted by David J. Wood on Sunday, February 21, 2010

Rev. Laura Mariko Cheifetz has been named director of the Leading Generations initiative at The Fund for Theological Education (FTE). In this newly created position, Cheifetz will connect the growing network of pastoral leaders, theological educators and Christian leaders who have participated in FTE’s programs, which aim to increase the number of gifted and diverse young people considering vocations as pastors and scholars. She will join the FTE staff on March 15.

“Midterms to Ministry” -a review by David Wood

Posted by David J. Wood on Monday, April 20, 2009

A closer look at this new book from the perspective of someone who has spent a lot of time transitioning clergy.

Easter’s Consequences

Posted by David J. Wood on Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Did your Easter sermon say anything?

Preaching in Tsunomic Times

Posted by David J. Wood on Friday, November 28, 2008

Preaching in a time of waiting.

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So, What are We Learning?

Posted by David J. Wood on Friday, September 12, 2008

A new Alban / Transition Into Ministry report Becoming a Pastor: Reflections on the Transition into Ministry has been released.

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