In your communication with the clergy, you are encouraging them to be more intentional about taking time to breathe in…

This time, when you communicate with the session, you are inviting them to have a conversation with their pastor as…

The focus for this quarter is on spiritual health. What you are trying to do is recognize that the work…

In your communication with the clergy, it would be good to begin by acknowledging the difficulty in discussing finances within…

Finances are a difficult area for churches and the presbytery. In your communication with the local congregation, you might want…

Finances are one of the more difficult things for pastors and sessions to discuss in a healthy manner. They are…

In your communication with the clergy in this quarter, you can encourage them to engage their family in a conversation…

In corresponding with the session for this quarter’s emphasis, you need to be mindful that the family of a pastor…

The focus for this quarter is the impact of ministry on the pastor’s family. At this presbytery meeting, you are…

During this quarter in which you are focusing on the emotional stress of ministry, you might choose to communicate with…

After the presbytery meeting where you have raised the issue of the emotional drain in the ministry, your communication with…

In preparation for the next presbytery meeting, you need to prepare a graph for all the commissioners. The graph looks…

During this first quarter, the COM should also have some communication with the pastor of the participating congregation about caring…

Once you have raised the awareness of the challenge of ministry and its demands through a presbytery event, then you…

Most congregations don’t deliberately set out to be unsupportive of a pastor. When it is raised to their consciousness, they…

HEALTHY CLERGY MAKE HEALTHY CONGREGATIONS. That is the message I would like see infuse our congregations across our denomination. It…

At the end of WWII, congregations joined with the changing culture of society to institutionalize and professionalize ministry. Our denominations…

Yesterday I shared the ideas from Laurence Schmidt newsletter that emphasized the value of some simple breathing exercises. In that…

The following is taken from the excellent newsletter put out by the Laurence Schmidt Center www.veralloyd.org which is worth subscribing…

I’ve been out a few days recovering from a small operation and this week will be erratic at best. However,…