Phase 1 provides two years of on-the-job training for new clergy. This track has both online and in-person components and is more intensive than Phase 2.

As we seek to minister to an ever-changing culture, we need new resources and tools to strengthen our leadership and to effectively reach our shifting contexts with the Gospel. In addition, ministry leadership is hard and sometimes lonely work, so spaces of meaningful connection and shared learning with other leaders is also essential to clergy thriving. Phase 2 provides practical ministry training and spaces of connection to facilitate ongoing clergy development. Each year we have two in-person modules—one in the fall and one in the spring. Then, once a month, clergy will gather in Zoom process groups for 60-75 minutes to process both learning and ministry life together.

Clergy Call Schedule

Diocesan all-clergy calls occur in odd-numbered months and deanery calls during even -numbered months. Process Group calls for MLA Phase 2 are held monthly.

	All-Clergy Call	Deanery Meeting/Call*	MLA Process Group
August
September
October
November			Clergy Conference (in-person)
December
January
February
March			Clergy Conference (in-person)
April
May
June
July

^* Deanery and MLA Process Group meeting times vary. Your dean will provide information on deanery gatherings (online and in-person) directly. Process Groups will work out their own meeting times.

All of us know the importance of lifelong learning and none of us should take the stance that we know everything. The pandemic taught us how much we need each other and how much we can learn from each other. The MLA program provides us with significant opportunities to grow together and we are grateful this vision has come to fruition.