1,500 pastors leave their churches every month in the United States because of conflict, burnout, or moral failure. Help keep your pastor from becoming part of that statistic. Use every available resource to encourage, support, and partner with your pastor. This ezine and www.My-Pastor.com give you a good start toward effectively ministering to your minister.

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Date: January 4, 2011

Issue Number 021

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This Month's Pastor Statistic

Nearly half of pastors today would consider leaving the ministry even if that meant taking a secular job.

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What can you do?

• Give your pastor a break - by that I mean at least three and preferably four weeks of vacation a year.


• Lighten your pastor's load - He or she probably already works about 50 hours a week. Is there anything you or someone else can do to help him out?


• If your pastor has done something worth criticizing, talk to him personally. Never criticize him behind his back.


• Pray daily for your pastor and his/her spouse. He needs the Spirit's help more than you know.

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The new 2011 Pastor Appreciation Workbook is now available!! It is bigger and even better than last year's edition. Get yours now!

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What's New?

I still have a few Pastor Appreciation Kits available!!! Get yours before they are all gone.

This kit contains nearly everything you need to put on a great Pastor Appreciation event. It includes a planning workbook, a bulletin cover, a full size banner, children's skit, a bulletin insert for kids, small but meaningful gifts for your pastor and his spouse, and a joke book to help you prepare a pastor appreciation sermon or speech. And there is so much more! It even comes in two sizes. Learn more here.

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Thanks for ministering to your minister!