Doctor of Ministry
Spiritual Director
If you choose to concentrate your work in the area of Spiritual Formation, you will select someone to work with you as a Spiritual Director. You will share with the person from your on-going dialogue with God, for example: How you are seeking God's leading; where you experience God's work in your life; how you are relating to God about difficult life situations and draining ministry experiences; as well as ways that you are learning to celebrate God's gifts and see your life as graced by His presence.
You will look for such qualities as these in a spiritual director:
- An ability to listen in a discerning way.
- A prayerful person who can encourage you in your own life of prayer.
- One whose own experiences with God has made him/her aware of and sensitive to the dynamics of spiritual growth.
You will meet with your Spiritual Director the equivalent of once for each course you take during the period of time in which you are taking intensive seminar classes in your D.Min. program. The meeting should include discussion of the course you took and how you can apply what you learned to your personal life. The Spiritual Director is expected to send the D.Min. office a report, in the form of a letter, on each meeting well as the spiritual director report.
If you will send us the name, address, telephone number, and email address of the person who has agreed to fulfill this role, we will send a letter that expresses our gratitude and explains what we are asking him/her to do.