Clergy Wellness Report
For bishops, priests, and deacons to lead – to be “wholesome examples“ to the people of God – their own wellness must be cared for and cultivated. The Episcopal Clergy Wellness Report focuses on the wellness of clergy with a particular emphasis on ordained servant leaders – bishops, priests, and deacons. But its ultimate concern is for the vitality of the whole Church.
The Clergy Wellness Report seeks to provide a long-term, systemic, and strategic perspective to strengthen clergy – and ultimately the Church – through a focus on wellness. The report presents a current “snapshot“ of the state of wellness in a sample of Episcopal clergy through an analysis of key indicators of health and well-being. However, this snapshot should be seen as a moving picture – a slice in time of a dynamic and fluid process of “becoming,“ a willingness to engage in a lifetime of change toward increased wellness.
This report is intended to serve as a benchmark for future reports, to be produced every six years, to discover trends and suggest potential courses of action to improve overall clergy wellness. By extension, healthy and well clergy will have broader systemic effects on the wellness of parishes and dioceses, and thus the Church as a whole.
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