Expectations in Ministry

I listen to a lot of podcasts, read a lot of blogs, and keep up with things on some of the bigger social media sites. I love to learn, especially when it comes to ministry and specifically, youth ministry.

So recently, I was listening to the Fuller Youth Institute podcast with Kara Powell. She was interviewing Leroy Barber on Sabbath Rest for urban youth workers.

During the interview, there was an interesting interchange about senior pastors expectations for youth pastors. One youth pastor talked to his senior pastor and told him that they probably wouldn’t see fruit for 5 years. His senior pastor accepted that. That seems to me, not to be the norm. While sitting in a youth worker seminar at a Youth Specialties convention, Len Evans brought out a interesting statistic (at least I think this is where I got it from the convention was in 2002) that youth pastors time expectancy at a job is, on average 3 years.

We are called by God, whether we have a degree or not, to walk slowly beside the ones we minister and realize that once the salvation has started that is a long process of healing and reorienting their life toward the path that God would have them take.

I look at this website, the Facebook group, the MySpace page, and Twitter account as a way to facilitate that process. We are all here to walk next to each other whether in paid ministry or in volunteer ministry and help each with the path that God has appointed us to and help spread the Light of His Word.

Cross posted at Big Ticket Festival Ministers Connection

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Expectations in Ministry

  1. Anonymous says:

    the tragedy today is that we have taken life’s benefits and tried to make them the purpose we need a passion for GOD to glorify GOD to glorify GOD means to make him look good, to place him on display so that when others see your life they stand in awe of GOD

  2. pastors tim bloggs says:

    the tragedy today is that we have taken life’s benefits and tried to make them the purpose we need a passion for GOD to glorify GOD to glorify GOD means to make him look good, to place him on display so that when others see your life they stand in awe of GOD

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