You who are called by God. We know you have heard it.

Someone saying surely you misheard. That you don’t know what you are doing. You see the problems in the Church and the world, and you are ready with thoughtful and creative ways forward.

They may say you are too young. Too old. Too busy raising children. Or too single. Too ambitious. Driven. Too distracted. Too much.

They miss out on seeing you. The full you. The person God is calling to this work. This episode offers encouragement and a blessing for those days when you remember your calling. Learn more, here. 

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Thank you Stockaudios for the podcast theme music, “Happy Day.” 

#pastoralimagination #ministryinpractice #clergylife #clergywomen #clergywomenofcolor #blm #youngclergywomen #baptistwomeninministry #BWIM #youngclergywomeninternational #lgbtqclergy #theologypodcast #clergypodcast #baptizedandordained #WritingTable #FreeWriteFridays #mentalwellness #TheologyThursday #selfcompassionpractices #LGBTQclergy  #mentalwellnessformen #mentalwellnessforwomen  #mentalhealthinthechurch #calledtoministry #thiscalling 

"You're feeling vocational grief." 3MMM Host Eileen Campbell-Reed shares this realization, and what it meant for her. In this episode, an excerpt from our All Saints Day Virtual Service, we invite you to take time to honor your loss and grief. 

You may want to gather up a piece of paper and a marker or pen. As you listen, let yourself pay attention to your own spiritual well-being by giving a little space to your vocational losses and grief. The prayer offered by Kali Cawthon-Freels gives voice to the #vocationalgrief many ministers and leaders have shared. 

Learn more, here. 

Thank you! You are invited to subscribe to weekly episodes of Three Minute Ministry Mentor :  https://3mmm.us/welcome 

Download a copy of the #PandemicPastoring Report: 
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Thank you Stockaudios for the podcast theme music, “Happy Day.” 

#pastoralimagination #ministryinpractice #clergylife #clergywomen #clergywomenofcolor #blm #youngclergywomen #baptistwomeninministry #BWIM #youngclergywomeninternational #lgbtqclergy #theologypodcast #clergypodcast #womenauthors #WritingTable #FreeWriteFridays #mentalwellness #TheologyThursday #selfcompassionpractices #LGBTQclergy  #mentalwellnessformen #mentalwellnessforwomen #teenmentalhealth #mentalhealthinthechurch 

How do women thrive in ministry? Eileen Campbell-Reed explores this question by imagining a future where women in ministry are thriving - 5 "future stories" that look like this:  

• Women  thrive  in  ministry  because  churches  pay  equitably
• Women  thrive  in  ministry  because  leadership  is  collaborative. 
• Women  thrive  in  ministry  when  men  focus  on  care  for  themselves  and  all  people.
• Women  thrive  in  ministry  because  we  are  not  so  angry  all  the  time.  
• Women  thrive  in  ministry  because  child  well -being  is  normative,  expected, and  funded.

Listen in to this episode that explores how men caring for their well-being and mental health affects flourishing in ministry for women and LGBTQIA+ clergy. Learn more. 

Thank you! You are invited to subscribe to weekly episodes of Three Minute Ministry Mentor :  https://3mmm.us/welcome 

Download a copy of the #PandemicPastoring Report: 
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Thank you Stockaudios for the podcast theme music, “Happy Day.” 

#pastoralimagination #ministryinpractice #clergylife #clergywomen #clergywomenofcolor #blm #youngclergywomen #baptistwomeninministry #BWIM #youngclergywomeninternational #lgbtqclergy #theologypodcast #clergypodcast #womenauthors #WritingTable #FreeWriteFridays #mentalwellness #TheologyThursday #selfcompassionpractices #LGBTQclergy #youthministry #ministrywithchildren  #mentalwellnessformen #mentalwellnessforwomen #teenmentalhealth #mentalhealthinthechurch 

Episode 87: Baptized and Ordained 

Eileen Campbell-Reed tells about how women and queer clergy are changing ministry for good. Baptized and Ordained is a year-long community, advance reading and feedback group, opportunity for live events. Sign up and find out more: https://BaptizedAndOrdained.org 

Questions answered in the video: 

0:20 A new book & community
1:45 How women and queer clergy are changing ministry
2:38 You are invited to become part of this community
3:13 What does the community include? 
4:39 How will it work? 
5:05 Why does this book matter? 
6:46 Join by October 1

Three levels of the Baptized and Ordained Community:

CLIO level: $5/month
THALIA level: $10/month
POLLY level: $20/month

Learn more and sign up: https://BaptizedAndOrdained.org

BLOG: "How Women Thrive in Ministry" 
ARTICLE “No Joke: How A Culture of Disbelief Keeps Clergywomen Pushing Uphill”
BOOK: Pastoral Imagination: Bringing the Practice of Ministry to Life 
BOOK: Anatomy of a Schism  
REPORT: #PandemicPastoringReport  
REPORT:  State of Clergywomen in the US https://stateofclergywomen.org 

Music: “One Step Further” by Roman Senyk (on Pixabay)
https://pixabay.com/music/indie-pop-one-step-further-141064/

Download a copy of the #PandemicPastoring Report: 
https://pandemicpastoring.org

Thank you! You are invited to subscribe to weekly episodes of Three Minute Ministry Mentor https://3mmm.us/welcome 

Music: “One Step Further” by Roman Senyk (on Pixabay)

#pastoralimagination #baptizedandordained #LGBTQclergy #clergywomen #youngclergywomen #womeninministry 

3MMM | Podcast #86: How Women Thrive in Ministry

Three Minute Ministry Mentor (3MMM) host Eileen Campbell-Reed is answering the question, how do women thrive in ministry?   She shares 5 ways to imagine future stories in which women are thriving. 

This conversation opens up more about Eileen's latest book: "Baptized and Ordained" (working title).  This book will explore how women clergy and queer clergy are changing the practice of ministry for good. 

In this episode, Eileen tells more about the ideas around this new book, and invites you to be a part of it! 

To learn more about becoming an advanced reader for Eileen's book, visit and find out more information: https://eileencampbellreed.org/baptized-and-ordained 

Thank you! You are invited to subscribe to weekly episodes of Three Minute Ministry Mentor https://3mmm.us/welcome

Writing? Join us at #TheWritingTable - find out about membership info and Free Write Fridays.

Download a copy of the #PandemicPastoring Report: 
https://pandemicpastoring.org

 Thank you Stockaudios for the podcast theme music, “Happy Day.” 

Have you ever  simply run out of words? 

3MMM Host Eileen Campbell-Reed tells us about how she did. And how she "learned to pray in God’s language" of silence. Perhaps you would like to give it a try?

How to Start Meditating - a simple, step-by-step guide to a practice of silence and prayer.  More: 3MMM Episode 199: Pray, Read, Write

How will you notice the quality of silence in your life? What is your calling in this season?

+ Download a copy of the #PandemicPastoring Report: 
https://pandemicpastoring.org

+ Thank you! You are invited to subscribe to weekly episodes of Three Minute Ministry Mentor https://3mmm.us/welcome

+ Thank you Stockaudios for the podcast theme music, “Happy Day.” 

#howtomeditate #meditationpractices #pastoralimagination #clergylife

In this episode, we offer a Mother’s Day prayer. Yet, it is not like the ones Eileen Campbell-Reed grew up hearing.

This prayer is more of a psalm and a lament. It lifts up to God the painful and unspeakable facets of mothering and #mothersday. It also honors the gifts and graces of mothering. God in her wisdom sees and hears it all. There is no truth we cannot pray.  

+ For the full text of this prayer, go to eileencampbellreed.org 

+ Download a copy of the #PandemicPastoring Report: 
https://pandemicpastoring.org 

+ Faith communities have been challenged. Changed. Grieved. And it is time to talk about it. Check out the new Study Guide, here. 

Thank you! You are invited to subscribe to weekly episodes of Three Minute Ministry Mentor https://3mmm.us/welcome 

Thank you Stockaudios for the podcast theme music, “Happy Day.”  

#Mothersdaygrief   #HannahService   

#MothersDayPrayer #MothersDay2023 #pastoralimagination 

Episode 83: Finding Our Way

Has anything changed over the past three years in your ministry? If your answer is yes - check out this new resource. 

Our goal in studying and seeking to understand the lives and practices of Christian ministers over the last 20+ years is to make this work more understandable. To support the people called to it. And, after the last three incredibly stressful and unprecedented years, to help renew the practice of ministry.

To that end, Eileen Campbell-Reed wrote a 30-page #PandemicPastoring Report (PPR). It summarizes the research with over a hundred clergy and volunteer leaders in 20+ denominations. This episode invites Erin Robinson Hall talk about the new companion piece to that report: the PPR Study Guide.   

Faith communities have been challenged. Changed. Grieved. And it is time to talk about it. Check out the new Study Guide, here. 

Download a copy of the #PandemicPastoring Report: 
https://pandemicpastoring.org 

Thank you! You are invited to subscribe to weekly episodes of Three Minute Ministry Mentor https://3mmm.us/welcome 

Thank you Stockaudios for the podcast theme music, “Happy Day.”  

#pandemicpastoringreport

#pastoralimagination

#neweraofministry 

Episode 82: Talking Through Tragedy

How do we talk children through tragedy? What about parents and teachers, especially when the tragedy has impacted children and the places where children go, like schools or churches? And what about caring for congregations as a whole? 

Last week in Nashville, we experienced what is reaching epidemic proportions in the form of another school shooting. This episode invites us to think about how we care for our children when they are exposed to or become aware of the tragedies of our world. 

Download this handout to help you prepare to talk to our children and teenagers when crisis erupts. We need plans to help us respond with care and work for justice for our congregations and our wider communities.  

Download a copy of the #PandemicPastoring Report: 
https://pandemicpastoring.org

Thank you! You are invited to subscribe to weekly episodes of Three Minute Ministry Mentor https://3mmm.us/welcome

Thank you Stockaudios for the podcast theme music, “Happy Day.” 

#griefandchildren #griefcare #pastoralimagination 

Episode 81: Beauty of Motherhood

There is beauty in parenting. Not because the work is all glamorous or easy, but because God’s presence and grace is woven through it, even when it is messy and fraught and full of pain and tears and uncertainty.

In this FULL CONVERSATION with Erin Strybis, Kimberly Knowle-Zeller, Erin Robinson Hall and Eileen Campbell-Reed, find out what these mothers claim about rising in the dark, fears about the violence that threatens our children, inequity among families with children, and how we can work towards justice for all children. How can we respond to the ways we measure and doubt ourselves as parents?

Have a listen as they lift up the values of beauty and community, grace and blessing, play and justice, in the shared work and practices of parenting.

Download a copy of the #PandemicPastoring Report: 
https://pandemicpastoring.org

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Thank you Stockaudios for the podcast theme music, “Happy Day.” 

#beautyofmotherhood #parentingforward #pastoralimagination 

This week we are talking once again with Kim Knowle-Zeller and Erin Strybis about their new book, The Beauty of Motherhood.

3MMM Host Eileen Campbell-Reed tells us: There is beauty in parenting experiences. Not because the work is all glamorous or easy, but because God’s presence and grace is woven through it, even when it is messy and fraught and full of pain and tears and uncertainty. 

Download a copy of the #PandemicPastoring Report: 
https://pandemicpastoring.org

Thank you! You are invited to subscribe to weekly episodes of Three Minute Ministry Mentor https://3mmm.us/welcome 

Thank you Stockaudios for the podcast theme music, “Happy Day.” 

#pastoralimagination #beautyofmotherhood