The Pastoral Leadership Search Effort (PLSE, pronounced ‘pulse’) helps dioceses and congregations identify and cultivate gifted young people interested in exploring the ministry as a possible vocation.  Part of a multi-year ecumenical effort begun with funding from the Lilly Endowment, Inc., now an integral part of the Episcopal Church’s program, PLSE focuses on all areas related to the cultivation of young vocations towards ordination, including:

• offering an online environment for young vocational explorers to voice their interests and questions
• creating congregational ecologies that cultivate vocational inquiry and exploration
• encouraging adults to relate directly with young people as part of expressing their own baptismal identity
• examining and confronting the attitudinal and structural restraints in our ordination processes

Learn more by visiting the PLSE website at http://www.theplse.org/