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?
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Trauma
A wide range of emotional, spiritual, and relational trauma is experienced by the leader and family members.
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Loneliness
Leaders and their family lose relational and spiritual support from members of their community.
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Finding a new job
The average ministry leader takes a year before finding a new job, and they frequently switch fields.
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Unemployment benefits
Ministry leaders are not usually eligible for unemployment benefits, and many church leaders do not know this.
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Financial devastation
Transitioning out of ministry causes financial hardship for pastors and leaders, resulting in housing relocation.
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Spiritual deconstruction
Coming out of church or parachurch ministry, leaders experience spiritual deconstruction, and their future ministry suffers.
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.
