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>> Ways to Help | Pastors Wives
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Everyone needs recognition for his accomplishments, but few people make the need known quite as clearly as the little boy who said to his father: "Let's play darts. I'll throw and you say 'Wonderful!'" Source: Bits & Pieces, December 9, 1993, p. 24.
From some 8000 laymen and ministers with whom we have conferred, five principal problems emerge: a loss of nerve, a loss of direction, erosion from culture, confusion of thought, exhaustion...They have become shaken reeds, smoking lamps, earthen vessels...spent arrows. They have lost heart. But they can be revived!" Source: Carlyle Marney, who conducts the "Interpreter's House" for discouraged pastors at Lake Junaluska, quoted in K. Menninger, Whatever Became of Sin?, p. 224. |
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Here are a few practical ways you can help and encourage pastors:
- Ask the question, “How can I help you more?”
- Wash and wax his car. (Include his wife’s car too.)
- Arrange to take the family cars in for an oil change.
- Get a few guys together and do a yard “spring cleaning” - maybe plant some flowers.
- Help with a "honey do" project around the house.
- Send a card of encouragement.
- Discover his hobby and offer to participate (golf, fishing, hunting, go to a baseball game, etc.).
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