Your PM&M Placement Process

If you are seeking to begin an internship in Summer or Fall 2025, please communicate with the PM&M office by registering for the PM&M Information Session. The process for placements can begin as early as Fall 2024.

Your registration form is sent to the email address provided on the form and to the PM&M office automatically.

This tab is for PMM Internships in a nonprofit or congregation or as lead pastor of a church who is not a Wesley Student Pastor.

Your PMM Seminarian 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. Note: If you are requesting to do your internship where employed, then you will need to submit your PMM Where Employed Petition with your application.

Lead pastors will need to submit the SPP-PMM Working Covenant and may choose to follow the process for student pastors (SPP).

*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 the PM&M office.
• To submit, use this link: Secure Questionnaire Submission (https://wesleyseminary.egnyte.com/ul/coXqVvACPR).
• 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 and the Program Administrator for PM&M.

*All seminarians seeking to participate in a PMM internship MUST complete the forms as indicated.*

To organize your goals for a PMM placement, the Worksheet for Seminarian Placement Goals is provided.

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 in the Ministry Setting Listed Sites provided by the PM&M office on the Blackboard organization PMM-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 (Worksheet for Seminarian Placement Goals and, if desired, your resume) with sites of interest so that the site might learn more about you and contemplate the possibilities for the internship. Schedule time to meet with the site contact and, if possible, 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 PM&M placement schedule:

• • Colloquies (your PM&M course) meet on Wednesday afternoons (1:30-3:30 p.m.) or 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 PM&M placement process 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 accordion (+) tab: Prepare your PMM placement proposal....

After discerning your potential placement site, provide information to the PM&M office about the ministry setting with all current information on the site by submitting the confirmation form below.

Once the confirmation is processed, the PM&M office will be in touch with the site, copying you.

Note: Other documents may be needed depending on your situation.

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

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

Your confirmation form is sent to each email address provided on the form and to the PM&M office automatically.

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 desired term (summer or fall/spring):

**For seminarians promised a pastorate, please contact the PM&M office.

1. Your Placement Application due by February 1.
2. Your Wesley PMM Leadership Fitness Questionnaire due by February 1.
3. Your submitted confirmation of proposed site using the form below due before the internship term deadline.
4. The PM&M office will request that the site contact returns the site application-agreement form found on the webpage Congregations and Nonprofits. The application-agreement must be complete including both site learning partner profiles. This is due before the internship term deadline.

Note: Other documents may be needed depending on your situation.

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

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

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

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.

This page is for those who are the lead pastor of a congregation and are seeking the Student Pastor Track. PMM lead pastors may follow the SPP process as well.

1. The SPP Information Sheet with all current information is due by Feb. 1.
2. The Leadership Fitness Questionnaire is due by Feb. 1. See information below for questionnaire submission.
3. After your pastorate is set, determine who your clergy learning partner (an area clergy person on any denomination) and your lay learning partner will be and proceed to the next accordion (+) tab for the rest of your paperwork with deadlines.

Prepare your congregation and plan you schedule:

• • Colloquies (your SPP 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 partner, and lay partner—will need to attend orientation together during the coming summer months. See Upcoming Events for PM&M placement process dates.

To submit your Leadership Fitness Questionnaire:

• Follow the directions on the form. If you have questions, please contact the PM&M office.
• To submit, use this link: Secure Questionnaire Submission (https://wesleyseminary.egnyte.com/ul/coXqVvACPR).
• 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 and the Program Administrator for PM&M.

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

*All seminarians seeking to participate in an SPP internship MUST complete these forms.*

SPP placement documents are the responsibility of the Student Pastor to submit to the PM&M office by the deadline provided:

**For seminarians promised a pastorate, please contact the PM&M office.

• For summer, your pastorate must begin by May 15 and all paperwork completed and submitted to the PM&M office by June 1.
• For fall/spring, your pastorate must begin by July 1 and the paperwork completed and submitted to the PM&M office by August 15.

Once your pastorate begins or as soon as you have the information:

1. Your completed Student Pastor Information Sheet.
2. For the fall/spring internship: choose and email PM&M your colloquy meeting time for every Wednesdays: AFT (afternoon 1:30-3:30 p.m. ET) or EVE (evening 7:15-9:15 p.m. ET).
3. The SPP Clergy Learning Partner Profile from an area clergy person willing to partner with you. This person may be a retired pastor in your congregation.
4. The SPP Lay Learning Partner Profile from a congregation member willing to partner with you.
5. The SPP-PMM Working Covenant reviewed and signed by all relevant participants.

Note That: There are typically no extensions granted for summer PM&M deadlines.

Please note: Placement paperwork will be reviewed after receipt; placement approval is not guaranteed.

Interns are required to attend all the ZOOM colloquy meetings. throughout the internship and the June PM&M Orientation session to complete their summer internship:

• The first meeting will be Monday, June 10, 2024 at PMM 1: 6:00 p.m.–8:00 p.m. ET and PMM 2: 8:00 p.m.–9:00 p.m. ET.
• The last meeting will be Monday, August 12, 2024 at PMM 1: 6:00 p.m.–8:00 p.m. ET and PMM 2: 7:00 p.m.–9:00 p.m. ET.
• The other meetings may be found on the course syllabus.

The dates for the summer internship are Sunday, June 9–Monday, August 12, 2024 (25 hours weekly).

Details about PM&M courses and 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 International Seminarian Services office for the form and submission requirements.

Registering for fall online classes*:

• Register for the colloquy course MM-360 for fall 2024 and MM-361 for spring 2025. Notify the PM&M office letting us know whether your choice for attendance in the afternoon (1:30-3:30) or evening (7:15-9:15) ASAP.

Registering for summer online classes*:

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

For PM&M as an elective for 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.

PM&M orientation is required for all learning team members at the same session and is on ZOOM. 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 internship placement may not go forth.

For Summer interns: The learning partnership must 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 to the PM&M office automatically.