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Welcome. "What does it take to be a professional interfaith minister, to answer our calling and make a living from it?" So far, our group has found it takes connecting to other ministers, sharing information about higher education, chaplaincy, building interfaith communities, and regular "touchpoints" with peers to share in professional mentoring. We meet each month - usually on free conference calls. We sponsor or attend retreats or other events. All ministers are invited and there's no cost to join.

Click here to learn About the Ministers' Support Group

THE HISTORY OF INTERFAITH (click here). Few people know the recent history of our movement. It's my observation that as we honor those who have come before us, we are more able to stand in their accomplishments and honor our own. In short, we will see ourselves as called professional ministers. A more detailed essay of the interfaith movement throughout history is in the works.

CONTINUED WORK ON OUR EGOS! Most ministers I know constantly work to heal our egos, confront our spiritual fears, and look at those below-the-surface issues within ourselves which keep us from living our calling in the way we desire. (See links page for authors who have provided leadership in ego work.) All of this is done in order to minister to people without doing damage. I call it our "preparatory work". Our group helps each other by monthly "peer supervision" phone calls, where we address issues relating to ministry in any way we deem spiritually helpful. To learn more about "Ego, Fear and Shadow Work" for ministers, see the links below.

A GLOSSARY OF TERMS FOR MINISTERS. Our support group focuses on distributing information to Interfaith Ministers which give us a vocabulary to speak to ministers and educators of nearly any faith tradition. Below are links to informational document by topic.

COMMUNITY MINISTRY (click here). Statistics indicate that over 60 million people in the USA think of themselves as "spiritual but not religious" and are not affiliated with organized religion. That's one out of every five people! Yet there are few truly interfaith spiritual communities with viable congregations.

There may be no better way to serve people than in small community groups. That's why ministers who are called to serve as spiritual leader of a community need help from their peers in building a viable interfaith congregation.