I felt led to write this for all the pastoral teams and their congregants today. As the wife of a pastor, I know that pastoring is an exceedingly hard job. I was given a "How to Support Your Pastor" sheet by someone a while back...and it had all great stuff on it, but it all just talked about the man of God...leaving out the woman of God. There may be some pastors' wives who send their husbands off to do the ministry and just sit home and pray for them while they are out there... but this wife of a pastor definitely doesn't. My husband and I have been called together to pastor. We both work side by side in the ministry as a team. Always have and always will. We both face the same challenges... excitement... heartache... and victories. As we work together side by side... some days I have to admit are challenging; to not only feel the weight of your own family's burdens, but to feel the weight of many families' burdens on top of trying to administrate a church body and reach out to a hurting community especially with all that is happening in the world today.
Today, I had an HWA family member contact me, and just say that they would cry with me and stand with me in prayer for something. I can't even begin to say how much that means to this wife of a pastor. To know that people within your congregation have as much care for you...as you have for them.
I found this blog article that I thought was good...even though just directed mainly toward the man of God instead of also to the woman of God called by his side. http://www.victorious.org/blesspastor.htm If you want to see victory, growth, and blessing within your church and your own life, these are the three main things I would say to do: 1.) pray for your pastor and His wife, and stand with them. Don't just make suggestions about what can be done to sustain and grow those within and without the church... but back it up with helpful action in line with the vision of the pastoral team. 2.) Grab onto the vision that God has placed before your pastors...and help them to run with it. 3.)...and most of all, testify publicly to what God has done and is doing for you at your church. It glorifies God...and it encourages your pastor. Be a blessing!
“And we urge you, brethren, to recognize those who labor among you, and are over you in the Lord and admonish you, and to esteem them very highly in love for their work’s sake...” (1 Thes 5:12-13)
Today, I had an HWA family member contact me, and just say that they would cry with me and stand with me in prayer for something. I can't even begin to say how much that means to this wife of a pastor. To know that people within your congregation have as much care for you...as you have for them.
I found this blog article that I thought was good...even though just directed mainly toward the man of God instead of also to the woman of God called by his side. http://www.victorious.org/blesspastor.htm If you want to see victory, growth, and blessing within your church and your own life, these are the three main things I would say to do: 1.) pray for your pastor and His wife, and stand with them. Don't just make suggestions about what can be done to sustain and grow those within and without the church... but back it up with helpful action in line with the vision of the pastoral team. 2.) Grab onto the vision that God has placed before your pastors...and help them to run with it. 3.)...and most of all, testify publicly to what God has done and is doing for you at your church. It glorifies God...and it encourages your pastor. Be a blessing!
“And we urge you, brethren, to recognize those who labor among you, and are over you in the Lord and admonish you, and to esteem them very highly in love for their work’s sake...” (1 Thes 5:12-13)