It was a Sunday I’ll never forget. As a staff pastor, I had just finished leading worship in our morning service. As I did every Sunday, I exited the platform through a door to the right, descending the steps into our office suite. Closing the door behind me, I turned to my right, entering a […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: In addition to writing, Lydia Jay and her husband pastor Harrison Avenue Assembly of God in Harrison, OH. Along with their four daughters, they live in nearby Cincinnati. To learn more about the Jays and their ministry, click here. On Good Friday of this year (2023), my husband had the opportunity to be […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Hannah Horst serves as a US missionary and Orphan Care Chaplain with the Assemblies of God. You and your church can support this vital ministry as Hannah works to mobilize the church in ministering to these children at risk – simply click on the link to learn more or donate to her ministry: […]
A Journey Survey of Staff Pastors – Part II Two weeks ago, Journey published the first of a two-part survey on the relationship between lead and staff pastors. In that article, we presented the responses of staff pastors to two questions: Question One – USE: How have your lead pastors used you well – made […]
A Journey Survey of Staff Pastors – Part I Pastor, a pastoral coaching question for you: “When it comes to your pastoral staff: are you a user, abuser, or steward?” Do you use them – you make good use of them as God’s called ones in leading your church ministries, seeing them as people and […]
“I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom: preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching. For the time is coming when people […]
A new year. With the dawning of a new year, we are prone to make New Year’s resolutions designed to improve us or our lives in the year ahead, or maybe even for the rest of our lives. Among the more common are: reading our Bible and praying daily, exercising, and losing weight. But, unfortunately, […]
(EDITOR’S NOTE: During Journey Pastoral Coaching’s 2022 summer break, we’re reposting this article from 2017, a look at five lessons your professors in Bible College or seminary couldn’t teach you – and through no fault of theirs: these are lessons learned only in the trenches of pastoring God’s people. We’ll soon follow up this article […]
In Part One of this two-part look at burnout in the ministry, we looked at two subjects: · the signs of burnout and · the causes of burnout. You can read that article here. In this follow-up, we will consider · the actions we can take to avoid burnout, and · how to deal with […]
A few months ago, I sat down with Pastor Daniel Day, host of The Daniel Day podcast. Click on the link to be directed to his always quality podcasts. The topic was burnout: the what and the why of it; what we can do to prevent burnout and what to do when it burrows its […]
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