MINISTRIES SERVING PASTORS
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Standing Stone Ministry is a non-profit ministry comprised of experienced ministry leaders committed to caring for pastors and their spouses at risk of leaving the ministry prematurely.
- Healthy shepherds lead healthy flocks.
- Strong and healthy ministry leaders develop strong and healthy followers of Jesus.
- Strong and healthy followers of Jesus advance the Kingdom of God.
Become a healthier ministry leader. Build a healthier ministry. Experience a trusted relationship with a Standing Stone shepherd today.
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Full Strength Network (FSN) exists to help ministry leaders discover full strength in wellbeing in areas like richer spiritual health, deeper relationships, and increased leadership capacity.
We believe healthy pastors lead healthy churches, and healthy churches change the world. FSN is dedicated to serving anyone in Christian ministry with shepherding responsibilities, including ordained or licensed pastors, ministry leaders, and their spouses.
Full Strength Network is a registered 501 (c) (3) nonprofit ministry created in 2015 to strengthen Christian pastors and their families. We are a growing national network of caregivers and service providers passionate about helping pastors and their families thrive in ministry life.
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Alongside is a Christian ministry that fosters growth and renewal of mind, body and soul for missionaries, pastors and other leaders. Through retreats that offer professional counseling, teaching, and community, Alongside fosters restoration for those who have found themselves in difficult circumstances.
Imagine:
- Serving from a place of wholeness rather than frenzied existence
- Feeling in step with the Father rather than feeling distance
- Recovering from burnout, exhaustion, or trauma, and knowing how to move forward
- Coming to a place where your whole family can be cared for by people who understand the challenges of ministry
Imagine yourself at Alongside.
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helpful ministry Websites
Dave DeSelm Ministries
Dave DeSelm Ministries
Dave DeSelm Ministries
Pastors often feel isolated and alone, confused, and frustrated. They want to build a prevailing church. They long to fulfill Jesus’ Great Commission to go and make disciples, but they aren’t sure how. And the resources they need seem out of reach.
Dave DeSelm Ministries is here to bring hope and help to the everyday leader. They offer resources that will help pastors equip the everyday people they lead to become disciples who live out their Kingdom mission every day.
The Summit
Dave DeSelm Ministries
Dave DeSelm Ministries
“Discipleship is the pressing need in the church… and only leaders formed in the likeness of Christ can lead the way.”
Under the leadership and teachings of Dr. Jody L. Owens the goal of The Summit is to nurture the souls of Christian leaders and equip them to more effectively disciple those in their care. The Summit includes:
Spiritual Formation Leadership Summit
Learning Retreats
Small Group Discipleship Training
Run Hard. Rest Well
Dave DeSelm Ministries
Run Hard. Rest Well
We know how to run hard. Do you and your team know how to rest well? Becoming a champion of rest revolutionizes God’s work in us and through us. It reacquaints us with the peace and quiet our souls have tried to live without.
Run Hard. Rest Well. equips people to embrace a pace and passion for work and rest that is biblical, transformative and sustainable.
Life and Leadership
Harvest Prayer Ministries
Run Hard. Rest Well
LifeandLeadership.com was prepared with one mission in mind:
To help people grow into the best version of themselves and thereby live and lead more effectively.
Dr. Carlus Gupton is the founder and publisher of LifeandLeadership.com, a website with over 1,500 pages of resources for church leaders.
Strategic Renewal
Harvest Prayer Ministries
Harvest Prayer Ministries
Strategic Renewal is a para-Church ministry that exists to serve the local church and is characterized by an extraordinary commitment to the priority of prayer and the ministry of the word.
Harvest Prayer Ministries
Harvest Prayer Ministries
Harvest Prayer Ministries
Harvest Prayer Ministries exists to equip the local church to become a House of Prayer for all nations, releasing God’s power for revival and finishing the task of world evangelization.
Financial Discipleship
Maximizing Your Leadership
Personal Revival Journey
Compass is a ministry that helps pastors and congregations use God’s Word to implement every area where money intersects with life…home, work, community.
Personal Revival Journey
Maximizing Your Leadership
Personal Revival Journey
Take the next seven days to journey with God and examine your relationship with Him. Every great movement of God has a beginning. Begin yours today!
Maximizing Your Leadership
Maximizing Your Leadership
Maximizing Your Leadership
In this site you will find that Mr. Nieuwhof is passionate about helping other leaders find success in their lives. Here you can find help for productivity, clarity, focus, passion, energy and effectiveness in your life and leadership.
A Recommended devotional book
A few months ago, Cindy and I were visiting Alongside Ministry in Michigan to learn more about how they provide a place for pastors, missionaries and their families to find respite, renewal and restoration in their calling. While we were there, I found a "book" on one of the end tables in the apartment they provided for us in our overnight visit. Picking up "Seeking God's Face ~ Praying with the Bible through the Year" by Philip F. Reinders, I was intrigue with the format of the daily devotion and how it not only engaged me with the Word, but how it helped guide me into a quiet time. The foreword by Eugene Peterson was certainly another reminder of how easy it is "to pretend to pray" but more importantly how rewarding it is to spend a quiet time with the Lord in prayer that is authentic. Here are a few thoughts from Peterson.
Seeking God’s face melds prayer and scripture into companionable guide for becoming a participant – both listening and speaking end in the great salvation conversation that is the Christian Gospel.
Prayer is a natural and authentic substratum (foundation) of language. But there is an irony here: prayer, language at its most honest, is also the easiest form of language to fake. We discover early on that we can pretend to pray, use the words of prayer, practice the forms of prayer, assume postures of prayer, acquire a reputation for prayer, and never pray. Our “prayers,” so-called, become a camouflage to cover up a life of nonprayer.
The most frequent distortion of prayer takes place when we fail to listen to God's Word to us. We do all the talking, demanding that God do all the listening. If we are going to get the story straight, it’s important that we let God have the first word, and really listen; I mean really listen. Jesus' story of the soils is the story about prayer: "He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”
This devotion has a unique format to guide you in your moments of a daily prayer. As Reinders wrote, "Each day contains a number of elements for you to pray with, either quietly or aloud. Again, consider the whole time a prayer, a gently conversation with God who loves you."
You can click here to go to a website for the daily devotion or purchase the book which I highly recommend. Either way as Reinders said, "Enough talk about prayer; now go and seek God's face in prayer. Commune with the Father, Son and Spirit, and give my greetings to God."
recommended books
MONDAY ENCOUNTERS
MONDAY ENCOUNTERS
MONDAY ENCOUNTERS
SAYING YES
MONDAY ENCOUNTERS
MONDAY ENCOUNTERS
NAVIGATING RISKS
MONDAY ENCOUNTERS
NAVIGATING RISKS
FINISHING STRONG
FINISHING STRONG
NAVIGATING RISKS
HEALTHY SOUL
FINISHING STRONG
HEALTHY SOUL
NOT QUITING
FINISHING STRONG
HEALTHY SOUL
SURVIVING and THRIVING
KEEPING THE SABBATH REST
KEEPING THE SABBATH REST
KEEPING THE SABBATH REST
KEEPING THE SABBATH REST
KEEPING THE SABBATH REST