Pastor Essays

Pastor’s Information The pastor interviewed was Bishop Jerome “Jay-Jay” Branch, Jr., Senior Pastor, Lion of Judah Community Church, Williamston, NC. The church does not have an official webpage, but can be viewed on Facebook using the church’s name, city, and state. Interview Questions Interviewer: Tell me about your call to pastoral ministry. Interviewee: My call to pastoring was birth out of a desire to see people saved, trained into disciples, and sent out to bring others into the kingdom

The pastor of one of the small town churches is Pastor Ted Weis. Him and his family all do their part for the church. Melissa Weis plays the piano for the congregation, not do the pastor and his wife lead l Sundays but they also lead their three teenagers through life. Jenna Weis being the oldest, Valerie Weis being the middle child, and David Weis being the youngest of the three. Each Sunday, younger people attend to the basement for their Sunday school. The two different schools having separate

of the Executive Pastor In the last fifty years, the Christian church in America experienced great change and redefinition. That time period saw the rise of so-called mega-churches, religious communities with large congregations and footprints that dwarfed their historically small counterparts (Kiel, 2012). With attendance rolls in the thousands, these organizations necessitated a new leadership model and could not rely on the single traditional model of a single senior pastor (SP) providing every

In his memoir “The Pastor”, Eugene Peterson, renowned biblical scholar, Christian author, and Presbyterian pastor, offers us a glimpse into what it truly means to be a pastor. He gives insight not just to the destination of pastoral leadership, but gives detail to the journey that led him both to his calling and to his pastoral placement. The tagline to the book, “Every step an arrival”, rings clear throughout the book as he shows us that his experiences growing up in the Montana wilderness, and

research of pastors’ self-care shows that “over 70% of pastors considering leaving the ministry due to stress” and around 90% pastors think of leaving the ministry once and feel “worn out on a weekly or daily basis”. The number is surprising. When a person hears the calling and comes to the seminary to equip himself/herself with the knowledge of God, s/he may never think about someday s/he will want to quit this scary job. The Focus on the Family survey finds out that “most of the full-time pastor work

anticipation to reluctance, from enthusiasm to paralyzing fear. Despite the prevalent assumption that all ministers are free from the pains of shyness or the terrors of stage fright, this simply is not true. Pastors with a clear understanding of the power of preaching in the life of the Christian community, pastors who have seen the people sitting in the pews hungry for a truthful word that clarifies and compels knows that

Who I am, what I am called to do, and why I want to pursue training at the Seattle School is one of the most incredibly, beautiful, daunting, impossible, frustrating, fulfilling, and terrorizing prompts I’ve written on in my 25 years on earth. However, my ego powered me through countless now deleted drafts, convincing I could write the perfect paper. In this mania, I somehow found time a space to reflect. As I wrote and reflected and cried and laughed and panicked and drank unsafe amounts of coffee

During the interview with Timothy Hughes, Pastor of the First Baptist Church, many difficult and probing questions were asked to discover the heart of his decision making process. The pastor, making himself available for this interview answered with much openness and transparency revealing how he makes decisions regarding a variety of issues. In regards to fear and its impact on his decision making, one could ascertain that this pastor uses acknowledgement of his fear to provide balance in this

of highly effective people is “seek first to understand, then to be understood.” Most misunderstandings relate to ineffective communication. Emmanuel Lartey in his book, In Living Color implores us to consider different cultures when approaching pastor care. We must recognize that cultural differences require diverse strategies and methods of pastoral care.

personal strengths and weaknesses. With the help of my CPE peers and supervisors, I am now able to use pastoral authority more effectively, although it is still a struggle. I am still not certain how people can make statements like “God has made me a pastor,” when I believe that a church system made them a minister. While I do well when visiting parishioners in hospitals and praying for them, I am still hesitant to use pastoral authority while answering parishioners ' theological questions about issues

summary of the training. Pastors starting new churches make outreach a priority for ministry.  Almost all pastors have three priorities: preaching, teaching and pastoral care. Pastors also find time for an area of special interest such as pastoral counseling or social justice or prayer. When I started as a church planter, the area of special interest was dictated for me. If I didn’t lead the congregation in reaching out the community, the new church would fail. Pastors of established churches can

Christianity of India. The all too familiar question “ Since you’re parents are both pastors, will you become a pastor too?” If I can count there may be around 3,000 times people asked whether I would become a pastor since I will be fourth generation women on my mother’s side that go to seminary. It still confuses me every time why everyone thought I would become a pastor like my parents. Indeed, I come from a long lineage of pastors and missionaries from both of my parent’s families, however, I always felt

and according to Thomas Long, this makes me very pastoral in nature. “Preaching should intentionally seek a beneficial change in the hearers [and] should help people make sense of their lives.” For me, this points to more than just the image of the pastor as preacher – it points to what kind of preacher image that I chose to take on. This is because the congregation, the body of Christ, is a living and dynamic body of people. In order to help people to make sense of their lives, make changes in their

Minister and Manager A church ministry cannot live on if it is only run by one man. This is because just like a typical business enterprise, a church is a comprised of various members who seek to know the Lord. Thus, a ministry can be regarded as a community, just like the business entities around the world. In line with this premise, this paper will provide for interviews with a minister and a manager of a particular business. These interviews will discuss the similarities and the different administration

Pastor Keith Tonkel, the evangelist, the author, the orator and the spiritual leader left this world to be with his lord at the age of 81. Wells United Methodist Church in Jackson confirmed that their pastor had breathed his last at 10.50 am on Wednesday. He was undergoing treatment for cancer. Pastor Tonkel’s long term service to the church was literally an inspiration to many. Dealing with the death of their Pastor seems a very hard exercise for the church and its associated agencies. In a short

girl, I was always curious as to why our pastors were always males. As I got older, I learned that the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod did not allow female pastors but was aware that there were female pastors in other congregations of different denominations. I accepted the fact that we do not have female pastors in the LCMS but never really understood why it worked that way. After all, women were supposed to have equal rights so why could they not be pastors? This topic has always been of great

I have been a Children’s Church Minister and Care Pastor for over fifteen years. As a Children’s Church Minister, I teach kids from ages 8-1o biblical principles. I also teach character development, social skills, and the practical application of God’s Word. I have developed the spiritual application in ministering to these children, but feel I am lacking in the proper knowledge and history of the Bible. I want to study the history of the Bible to know the different timelines, and historical events

Accomplishments as a Pastor On June 22, 2002 I was unanimously voted to be the pastor of the New Macedonia M.B. Church in Tampa, Florida. I was installed as Pastor in October of the same year. With a inspirational outlook to continue in the will of God, I continued in the legacy that was left by my the grandfather, Rev Odell Glover (deceased), who had served as pastor for almost 27 years. In my fourteen (14) years as Pastor of New Macedonia, the following programs have been established: · The Glover's

curriculum year to year. This program has opened up a greater understand as to how important it is teachers to work with students. It can help facilitate getting parents more involved with their child’s academics not just their sportsmanship. As a Pastor/Educator this course will open doors to education forums policy making and changes to public/private schools meetings. Currently there are many issues with the local public school’s Special Education department. I plan to use past and present course

getting a tattoo is alright for them, or if they should stick with the Bible’s command to oppose body ink. Pastor Mark Driscoll of the Trinity Church in Arizona has shed some light on the issue in a new video newsletter. Pastor Mark Driscoll says he is not against tattoos, but he also said his whole family does not have body ink. Quoting Leviticus 19:26-30 in the Bible, the Arizona-based pastor said God forbade Christians in the Old Testament times to participate in the pagan practice of marking their