"The 4 Great Challenges of Christian Counseling," by Kara Bettis is an outstanding article that will resonate deeply with both priests and presvyteres who walk beside suffering members of their parish communities. It offers keen insights into the challenges as well as buffers for navigating them.
"A Job Like No Other," an outstanding article written for "The Orthodox Observer" by Cindy Karos on her understanding of the responsibilities of the priest and its impact on the family.
By Deacon Haralambos Joiner, is an outstanding brief article, which address the destructive nature of nagging in marriage, sound strategies for overcoming it, and some basic spiritual principles for marriage. It can be found at: http://www.pravmir.com/marriage-nagging-spiritual-growth/
A Lilly Endowment grant of $1,000,000 was approved and is being implemented through the Center for Family Care to promote financial literacy for our clergy. This grant is part of the Lilly Endowment National Initiative to Address Economic Challenges Facing Pastoral Leaders. The primary goal of the long-term program is to enhance the effectiveness of our [...]
This is an outstanding, invaluable and free training program for a protocol for ministering to couples who come to pastors on the brink of divorce. http://pastoraldiscernmentcounseling.com
Becoming One is an ongoing offering for marriage enrichment. Each Becoming One presents a brief quotation or teaching on marriage along with an exercise or challenge for the couple. Couple's Activities Repentance in Marriage Time for a Time Out? Giving Our Spouse Space Our Spouse is our Closest Neighbor Marriage for the Glory of Christ Daily [...]
In this webinar, which was presented in the format of an interview, Deacon Michael discusses the connection between a healthy marriage and vibrant leadership in ministry. After you have viewed the webinar, please take a few minutes to complete the evaluation, which can be found at: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/priestly-leadership. The evaluations are very helpful as we determine improvements, [...]
In the following article, "We Were in Marital Hell," Kay Warren, the author of Sacred Privilege: Your Life and Ministry as a Pastor's Wife, and the wife of Rick Warren, the senior pastor at Saddleback Church in CA, offers a starkly realistic, but ultimately reaffirming, presentation of the major struggles of their marriage in the context of [...]
Below is an excerpt from a long letter written by Lynne Hybels to her husband on their 40th wedding anniversary. Bill Hybels is the senior pastor of Willow Creek Community Church in IL, an evangelical church. It contains many relevant truths that we as clergy wives and couples can identify with, even though we may [...]
Some of those who have tuned in to the clergy couple webinars have indicated in your evaluations that you would like to see a webinar on dealing with/loving the difficult and hard-to-love members of our church families. A webinar on this topic will be forthcoming. In the meantime, two resources for support are provided through [...]
