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 Welcome to Emory Clergy Care
Emory Clergy Care is a professional and personal resource for ministers and their families. Our mission is to accompany clergy persons throughout their vocational lives, discovering and providing needed support for effective ministry.
We have focused our education and training to be especially sensitive to the challenging points in the minister's career and family life, so that ministers can access vital resources when they are most needed. We work alongside persons of faith and accompany their discovery of direction and growth with honest hope and a clear sense of reality.
In an atmosphere of mutual respect, we seek to discern clergy persons' life aims, and gifts. Together we discover how these might be best applied in their current context.
We currently serve persons of many faith groups and bring an open and curious spirit to this vocation.
Please explore our services and contact us via e-mail at cynthialyonsc@yahoo.com or by phone at 678-924-9260 if we can serve you.
The Minister's Health and Wellness Program
In conjunction with the Emory Clinic, the Minister's Health and Wellness Program invites Georgia United Methodist clergy and spouses to the Emory Clinic for a comprehensive physical examination and health enhancement planning. The program uses Emory Clinic physicians and allied health professionals to enable healthy lifestyles for those in ministry.
Please call Cynthia Lyons, Program Adminstrator, for information regarding the next Wellness Program.
Pastoral Consultation and Counseling
Consultation and counseling for ministers is available on request at all times. The staff has resources and experience to aid in the reflection process as the minister seeks discernment in working with the congregation and its needs, hopes and resources.
Ministers generally contract for this service individually. It is usually short-term and problem- or issue-focused.
Associated with this are the minister's peer support groups now being formed around the North Georgia Conference.
For more information or appointment scheduling, please contact Emory Clergy Care via e-mail and leave a confidential message including your name and how we might contact you directly.
The Ministry Candidacy-Ordination Psychological Testing Program
Candidates and potential ordinands from three denominations are currently using the testing services of Emory Clergy Care. Each denomination utilizes a specific series of psychological tests to assist their process of candidate selection and confirmation for the various ministries of the church.
The most commonly used tests are the MMPI2, the Myers-Briggs Temperament Inventory, the SASSI Addiction Scale, The Sentence Completion Test, and The Personal History Questionnaire.
To schedule psychological testing, please call or e-mail Cynthia Lyons, Program Administrator.
The Ministerial Professional Program
The Minister's Professional Development Program is designed to strengthen needed pastoral skills and work practices to better equip selected pastors for effective continuance in ministry. A two-year commitment is a part of this program which seeks to give ministers, congregations and the larger church a stronger connection and missional covenant. Also involved is a series of psychological and vocational tests which help to clarify the gifts and strengths each participant brings to ministry. Those clergy and congregations who participate successfully in the program report a clarity of vocational direction.
The Minister's Professional Development Program is operational in Georgia and Michigan at this time.
The Vocational Re-Visioning Program
The Vocational Re-Visioning Program- is a process of discernment and action, leading to career change from ministry. It is designed to support ministers and their families as they move from career ministry into the secular world of employment.
For more information about these programs, including dates, times and places of meetings please e-mail us.
Clergy Family Services
Emory Clergy Care offers a full range of marital and family resources for Georgia clergy. This includes, but is not limited to, marital and family counseling, couples enrichment counseling, retreats for couples who want to have time alone to reconnect and reflect on strengthening their relationship, workshops for couples who wish to reorient their marriage relationship with the demands of church leadership and congregational life.
Emory Clergy Care enriches clergy family life through offering workshops for clergy families as they move through various ages and stages.
For more information or to make an appointment, e-mail or call Emory Clergy Care.
Continuing Education for Ministry
The Minister's Professional Enrichment Resource
Emory Clergy Care serves as a clergy enrichment resource by providing ongoing and single event programs such as District-wide minister's retreats, and the Fall Pastor's Day Apart at Simpsonwood Retreat Center. Several ministers' gatherings have used Emory Clergy Care facilitation resources, focusing on understanding and providing contextual-systemic pastoral care. Further, workshops are available to pastor's groups. Programs currently being offered are:
- Working with Difficult Disciples
- Reaching Their Hearts, A Program of Congregational Spiritual Assessment
- Loss and Pastoral Accompaniment for Families and Congregations
- Breaking Into Life, A Program of Tension Management
Emory Clergy Care is eager to share our expertise in facilitation and workshop leadership with clergy and congregations. We welcome your ideas for programs and workshops. We charge a reasonable fee based on professional time invested and travel expenses.
Contact us:
Emory Clergy Care
Gwinnett Commerce Center
3700 Crestwood Pkwy, Suite 270
Duluth, GA 30096
Phone: 678-924-9260, Toll Free: 1-866-394-9330
Fax: 678-924-9265
Cynthia Lyons
Program Administrator
E-mail: cynthialyonsc@yahoo.com
Fred L. Smoot, Ph.D.
Director
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