Don’t walk this season alone.

Many ministry leaders today find themselves navigating significant changes. Unfortunately, these transitions often come with a heavy burden - financial challenges, vocational disorientation, marital strife, and a sense of isolation within the community.

We typically characterize these various changes in our lives as "seasons." This Field Journal helps leaders in transition orient to a new landscape: the wilderness.

What are the challenges facing outgoing ministry leaders and their families?

  • Trauma

    A wide range of emotional, spiritual, and relational trauma is experienced by the leader and family members.

  • Loneliness

    Leaders and their family lose relational and spiritual support from members of their community.

  • Finding a new job

    The average ministry leader takes a year before finding a new job, and they frequently switch fields.

  • Unemployment benefits

    Ministry leaders are not usually eligible for unemployment benefits, and many church leaders do not know this.

  • Financial devastation

    Transitioning out of ministry causes financial hardship for pastors and leaders, resulting in housing relocation.

  • Spiritual deconstruction

    Coming out of church or parachurch ministry, leaders experience spiritual deconstruction, and their future ministry suffers.

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There is hope. You can find life after ministry.

We started a podcast because we wanted to tell leaders in transition that there is not only life after ministry, but there’s still ministry after ministry. Listen to some of our favorite stories.