You don't have to figure this out alone.
The right book, the right room, the right person — and a little help with the bill.
The denomination's own front doors into the process.
Discernment is tested in company, never alone.
Campus ministry & Wesley Foundations
United Methodist campus ministries are often the first place a college call is named and nurtured. Find the one nearest your school.
Your candidacy mentor
Once you enter the process, you are paired with a trained mentor who walks with you through the studies and the questions. This relationship is the heart of formal discernment.
A spiritual director
Apart from any official role, a spiritual director offers a confidential space to listen for God over the long haul. Many conferences can help you find one.
For the long, slow work of listening.
Listening Hearts: Discerning Call in Community
Suzanne G. Farnham et al.
A gentle, time-tested guide to testing a call in the company of others rather than alone.
Let Your Life Speak
Parker J. Palmer
On vocation as something you listen for rather than manufacture. Good for anyone wrestling with “is this really me?”
Rooms full of others on the same road.
So that cost is not the thing that stops a call.