Your PMM Placement Process

If you are interested in starting PMM in Summer or Fall 2023, please indicate that interest and sign up to attend one of the two PMM information meetings via the form below. For more information, please contact the PM&M office by email using PMMAssistant@WesleySeminary.edu.

Your PMM Seminarian Placement Application and Leadership Fitness Questionnaire is due by Feb. 1 regardless of whether you are seeking a summer or fall/spring placement. See information below for questionnaire submission. Your application may be submitted via email using your Wesley email or by bringing a copy to the PM&M office (PMMAssistant@WesleySeminary.edu; suite K-107). Note: If you are requesting to do your PMM where employed, then you will need to submit your PMM Where Employed Petition with your application.

*Seminarians will not be placed at their home church unless already employed there.*

To submit your Leadership Fitness Questionnaire:

• Follow the directions on the form. If you have questions, please contact PM&M.
• To submit, use this link: Secure Questionnaire Submission.
• Complete the online form with your first and last names and your email address, then press continue.
• Follow the directions on the screen, then press "send your file".
• Once your form has been reviewed, it will remain in this secure location where it is visible only to the Director of PM&M, the Assistant Director of PM&M, and the Program Administrator for PM&M.

*All seminarians seeking to participate in PMM MUST complete these forms.*

Teaching settings consists of sites that are organizations, congregations, agencies, hospitals, nonprofits, hospice or senior care facilities, etc.

Seminarians may determine a placement site to propose for their PMM internship by three methods:

• You might see a site on the Ministry Setting List provided by the PM&M office on the Blackboard course MM-001. To gain access to this list, please contact the PM&M office.
• Your place of employment might be a ministry setting. Please share the webpages Congregations & Nonprofits and Current Learning Partnerships with them and discuss how you will differentiate your usual work from your PMM internship ministry and mission work.
• You might discover a site on your own that piques your interest. If this happens, then it is important to share more information about PMM internships, the webpages Congregations & Nonprofits and Current Learning Partnerships are the best resources to do so.

As you contact and acquaint yourself with site(s), you might share your profile (Seminarian Placement Application and, if desired, your resume) with sites of interest so that each might learn more about you and contemplate the possibilities for the internship. Schedule time to meet with the site contact and the two potential learning partners: for congregations, the lay and clergy learning partners and for nonprofits, the site and mentoring learning partners.

Interviewing and discernment:

1. Take time to learn more about the site and its opportunities for ministry engagements and discuss what you are seeking to learn. You might review the site’s webpage.
2. Consider the site's schedule, your class schedule, and the PMM internship schedule:

• • Colloquies (your PMM course) meet on Wednesday afternoons (1:30-3:30 p.m.) and evenings (7:15-9:15 p.m.).
  • Share with the site that your learning team—intern, clergy/mentoring partner, and lay/site partner—will need to attend orientation together during the coming summer months. See Upcoming Events for PMM dates.

Once you identify a site that may provide your educational needs and is willing to partner with you, then prepare your placement proposal paperwork. More information on this paperwork may be found through the next accordion (+) tab.

PMM placement proposals include these documents prepared by the appropriate persons—seminarian or site contact—and submitted to the PM&M office by the deadline for the term (summer or fall/spring) desired:

1. Your Placement Application due by February 1.
2. Your Wesley PMM Leadership Fitness Questionnaire due by February 1.
3. Your email confirmation to the PM&M office:
   • Copy the site contact and both learning partners,
   • Name your proposed site including city and state, and
   • State the internship term. [Term Example: “Summer 2023” or “Fall/Spring 2023-2024”.]
4. The site contact returns the site application-agreement form found on the webpage Congregations and Nonprofits under the accordion (+) tab based on the site type that reads “[Congregation or Nonprofit] site confirmation for a potential internship…”. The application-agreement must be complete including both site learning partner profiles.

⇒Tip: It is best to submit paperwork two weeks prior to deadlines.

Please note: Site documents are reviewed after receipt; site approval is not guaranteed.

For Summer PMM, the placement proposal paperwork deadline is April 1. For an optimal experience, your PMM site should be the same for both summer terms.
Note That: There are typically no extensions granted for summer PMM deadlines.

For Fall/Spring PMM, the placement proposal paperwork deadline is May 1.
Note That: Seminarians requesting a fall/spring deadline extension MUST already be in conversation with the PM&M office prior to May 1. The extended deadline, by prior approval, for submitting a Fall/Spring placement proposal is June 1. Seminarians may not be able to participate in the fall/spring colloquy groups if PMM Placements are not finalized by June 1.

Please note: Placement proposals will be reviewed after receipt; placement approval is not guaranteed*Seminarians will not be placed at their home church unless employed there.*

Interns are required to attend all the ZOOM colloquy meetings (6:30 p.m.–8:30 p.m.) throughout the internship and the June PMM-SPP Orientation to complete their summer PMM internship:

• The first meeting will be Monday, June 12, 2023.
• The last meeting will be Monday, August 14, 2023.
• The other two meetings may be found on the course syllabus.

The dates for the summer PMM internship are Sunday, June 11–Monday, August 14, 2023 (25 hours weekly).

Details about PMM courses and PMM orientations may be found in the last two accordion tabs (+) below.

Before you register, note that to be in an approved PMM or SPP internship, you should have received a confirmation email from the PM&M office.

International interns need to complete and submit the Curricular Practical Training (CPT) Application to the PM&M office. Please contact the Office of International Seminarian Services for the form and submission requirements.

Registering for fall classes*:

• For 2022-2023 PMM I and prior PMM I interns: register for the PMM II course MM-313 for fall 2023 and MM-314 in the spring 2024. Register for afternoon or evening that matches your current colloquy meeting time.
• For incoming 2023-2024 PMM or SPP interns: register for the PMM course MM-360 for fall 2023 and MM-361 for spring 2024. Please let us know whether you are planning for afternoon (1:30-3:30) or evening (7:15-9:15) colloquy.

Registering for summer classes*:

• PMM 1 interns register for course MM-347.
• PMM 2 interns register for course MM-348.

For PMM as an elective or a second year: please see the course list provided by the Registrar.

*Having trouble with registration? See the registration video or contact the Registrar's Office.

Before you register, note that to be in an approved PMM or SPP internship, you should have received a confirmation email from the PM&M office.

PMM-SPP Orientation is required for all learning teams at the same session. The learning team should plan to attend ONLY ONE ORIENTATION TOGETHER. If orientation of all members of your learning team—intern, clergy or mentoring learning partner, and lay or site learning partner—are not completed by the first day of class, the PMM placement may not go forth.

For Summer PMM interns: The learning partnership should plan to attend the June session together.

Please be mindful of the deadlines to register for orientations. Your registration form is sent to each email address provided on the form and the PM&M office automatically.