Clergy Health and Wellness
Your wellness matters.
Clergy often meet their congregations' needs without much regard for their own mental, physical, financial, and emotional health. This can lead to burnout and cause clergy to desire to leave ministry.
Supporting the whole minister.
Pension Fund desires to support the whole minister, not just their retirement alone. That is why we offer financial literacy, mental wellness support, and other programs that support clergy health and wellness.
Clergy Health and Wellness Programs
Learn more about the programs available to support clergy health and wellness.
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Pension Fund has partnered with Your Money Line (YML) to offer financial literacy support to all of our members. From meeting with a financial guide to budgeting in their app, YML offers tools to help you understand your finances and make choices for a better financial future.
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Exclusively for our clergy members, Learn to Live offers mental wellness tools and support focused on cognitive behavioral therapy practices. This free service offers one-on-one support, mental wellness assessments, ongoing coaching, supportive articles, and so much more for your mental wellness journey.
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We believe that healthy clergy help create healthy, growing congregations. We also believe that it has never been more important for both pastors and congregations to be well.
As a result, we have expanded our investment in overall clergy health and well-being into a comprehensive clergy wellness program called Cornerstones. This program allows participating clergy to choose one of three wellness tracks: financial, physical, or mental wellness. Each area of well-being will include resources and tools, as well as grant opportunities to support clergy in that area of wellness.
Clergy in each track will participate in cohort groups that will be required to meet regularly for support and accountability; these groups are the heart of our holy friendship work. Each group is run by trained facilitators and is rooted in the belief that we are stronger, better, and more effective in ministry when we lean into real relationships with one another.
The Cornerstones program runs for 18 months with the opportunity for new cohorts after each cycle.
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The Gathering is a time of connection and reflection as a clergy community. Offered on a biannual basis, this retreat focuses on clergy wellness with impactful speakers and breakout groups to support your wellness needs.
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We know that as one organization, we can only do so much for clergy health and wellness. That is why we have partnered with other ministries with the same mindset.
Recently, such gifts were granted to Obra Hispana, Black Ministers Retreat, AllianceQ, the Christian Church in Puerto Rico, and NAPAD.
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The Low-Interest Loan Program is to provide financial stability to Disciples ministers by helping them accelerate payoff of high-interest debts, such as credit cards and payday loans.
*Note: This program is only available to those who have successfully completed the Excellence in Ministry or Cornerstones financial wellness program.
