Explorer Resources

Discernment (Call-Clarifying) Resources

• Timothy Circle Trail Guide (an online, free call discernment framework; exclusively at TimothyCircle.com)

Spiritual Gifts & Strengths Inventories

• Spiritual Gifts inventory from First United Methodist Church, Richardson, Texas
• Spiritual Gifts inventory from UMC Discipleship Ministries
• Gifting Questionnaire or Gifting Questionnaire for Students from Global Connections, UK (create a free account on the site to access the questionnaires)

Call Stories

• Listening Chair podcast (interviews with Christians working in a wide variety of careers and volunteer positions about how and why they felt called to them)
• CALLED series videos (scroll to bottom of page. Call stories to lay ministry, pastoral ministry, and servant ministry)
• From Here to There (a 28-page full-color graphic novel that tells the story of John, Naomi and Sam as they try to figure out living a life with purpose.)

Conversations with Adults in Your Life

• Talking with your parents about Call
• 5 Cups of Coffee (a resource to guide you through conversations about call with an adult mentor) This resource may be reproduced, shared, and/or adapted to meet the needs of the user. Contact 5cups@greatplainsumc.org for more information.

Leadership Resources

• Youth Can Lead Now (free, downloadable book that provides eight sessions on biblical leadership principles. Each session is meant to be a conversation space between Youth and Adults.)

Experiential Opportunities

Want to dive into an experience to help you clarify where God might be calling you? Try one of these paid summer internships working in poor and marginalized communities in the United States.  You’ll work, live in community with other program interns, and receive additional vocational training.

• Project Transformation
• QuadW Missional Internships