New Archived Clergy Couple Webinar! "Premarital Preparation: Some Thoughts and Considerations" offered by Fr. Harry and Kerry Pappas The following webinars were funded by the Lilly Grant for Financial Literacy. They are intended for parish leadership and can be used in various settings, though primarily intended to be used as training videos in seminars for [...]
Written in a question-and-answer forum, this article explores various ways in which seasoned pastors have kept “their marriages strong and vibrant in the midst of ministry responsibilities.” http://www.tonycooke.org/forum/answers/marriage_ministry/marriage_1.html
In Proverbs we read (and often quote), "Where there is no vision, the people perish." In this article, "Bonhoeffer Convinced Me to Abandon My Dream," the author, Chase Replogle, complements the teaching of Scripture as he reflects on his personal struggle with vision in parish life, and concludes, "The pastor's first call is not to [...]
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 [...]
Excellent article on ministry and rest and a natural follow-up to the most recent featured article on the website, "The Unbusy Pastor." This article is entitled, "When Rest is the Only Solution." Together, these articles probe truths that priests and presvyteres will benefit from. The article can be found at: http://www.christianitytoday.com/pastors/2015/winter/when-rest-is-only-solution.html
The article below is excellent for both priests and presvyteres to read and discuss together: "The Unbusy Pastor," by Eugene Peterson. Key quotation from the article: The word busy is the symptom not of commitment but of betrayal." The article can be found at: http://www.christianitytoday.com/pastors/1981/summer/eugene-peterson-unbusy-pastor.html
