Ministry Formation
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Ministry Formation develops communities of associates and leaders grounded in their own identities and guided by Ascension’s identity as a ministry of the Catholic Church. At its most basic level, formation invites associates and leaders to reflect on identity – personal, professional, communal and organizational – in community over time. Through this process of reflection on identity, Ministry Formation serves organizational integrity and personal flourishing in community. It fosters environments in which each care provider and associate is invited and enabled to realize and express the fullness of his or her identity as part of a community of service and to understand the gifts each contributes to the healing ministry. It enables persons to fully engage spiritual and theological resources, practices, and tools that can nourish their own interior life and our culture and can empower actions and behaviors that integrate and demonstrate our identity as a ministry of the Church.