08/24/2025
23 years ago we started pastoring at New Life Family Church. All of these things that MikeBrenda Wheeler shared in this post seems to describe the pastors life. However, pastoring is a CALLING that is very rewarding. Just as in any aspect of life, you meet many people and some become life long friends while others seem to be here and then gone for whatever reasons. WE have one of the best congregations ever. We are a small country church with a precious group of people that love God and each other. We are more than a congregation, we are FAMILY. What more could we ask for, right? ❤️❤️
THE PRICE OF BEING A PASTOR
Being a Pastor is listed among the four most difficult professions in the United States
because a Pastor must be:
•Preacher
•Example
•Father
•Husband
•Counselor
•Conference caller
•Planner
•Minister
•Visionary
•Director
•Mentor
•Friend
•Reconciliator
•Marriage counselor
•Youth Counselor
•Leader's trainer
•Bible teacher
•Intercessor etc etc
Besides being:
•Keeper of the temple
•Cleaning staff
Every Pastor constantly confronts many different things, such as:
The Pastor doesn't visit me
Sermon was too long.
The music was too loud.
The building is too cold.
Etc....
One of the most difficult things in the life of a Pastor is to know that at some point the people they love will abandon or even betray them.
The Pastor is often the loneliest person in the congregation.
You may see a Pastor be surrounded by people, but very rarely people who are interested in their problems, needs or even in their lives.
If you have a Pastor as a friend take care of them, pray for them, connect with vision that God gave them, support them, but above all love them. Remember they are human and in the same way they go through the same needs as you.
Even if you don’t believe it, many of them have sacrificed comforts, rest, personal plans and so many things including some of their own family’s needs to attend God’s call.
Value the time a Pastor puts into work, the prayers he makes for everyone, the burden he voluntarily carries for ministry. You don't know how much he'd appreciate knowing you do.
Jeremiah 3:15
And I will give you shepherds according to my own heart, who shall lead them with knowledge and understanding.
.. For all pastors 🙏
Thank you for all that you do !
