Leach and Patterson describe Pastoral Supervision as: “In a nutshell it is a relationship between two or more disciples who meet to consider the ministry of one or more of them in an intentional and disciplined way. ” “Pastoral supervision is practised for the sake of the supervisee, providing a space in which their well-being, growth and development are taken seriously, and for those among whom the supervisee works”. So

Supervision isn’t about the supervisor,

Supervision isn’t about your denomination or diocese,

Supervision is about you the supervisee,

it’s about you and the ministry that you are doing, it is about the people that you relate to, and how you do it. It’s about a professional supervisor being alongside you and helping you to look at what you are experiencing from other perspectives and considering ways that you can better do what God has given you to do in the place that he has put you. We who supervise at MPSA do it with an understanding that the God who presents himself in the bible is the God of the universe, that he is in charge of the world, and that he has put you where he has put you, that he is working as Paul wrote to the Philippians (2:13)

13for it is God who works in you to will and to act in order to fulfill his good purpose.

So your supervisor will work with you, as God works in you to fulfill his good purpose in you and for you.