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  Date / Time: 9/3/2009 1:12 AM UTC

  Beth El Study Fellowship's Pastoral School of Ministry
  

  Pastors today are faced with more work, more problems, and more stress than any other time in the history of the church. This is taking a frightening toll on the ministry, shown by the statistics below:

   

  1. Fifteen hundred pastors leave the ministry each month due to moral failure, spiritual burnout or contention in their churches.
  2. Four thousand new churches begin each year, but over seven thousand churches close.
  3. Fifty percent of pastors' marriages will end in divorce.
  4. Eighty percent of pastors and eighty-four percent of their spouses feel unqualified and discouraged in their role as pastors.
  5. Fifty percent of pastors are so discouraged that they would leave the ministry if they could, but have no other way of making a living.
  6. Eighty percent of seminary and Bible school graduates who enter the ministry will leave the ministry within the first five years. Ninety percent of pastors said their seminary or Bible school training did only a fair to poor job preparing them for ministry.
  7. Eighty-five percent of pastors said their greatest problem is they are sick and tired of dealing with problem people, such as disgruntled elders, deacons, worship leaders, worship teams, board members, and associate pastors. Ninety percent said the hardest thing about ministry is dealing with uncooperative people.
  8. Seventy percent of pastors feel grossly underpaid.
  9. Ninety percent said the ministry was completely different than what they thought it would be before they entered the ministry.
  10. Seventy percent felt God called them to pastoral ministry before their ministry began, but after three years of ministry, only fifty percent still felt called.

  What is going with us?  What must be done to stop this trend and help each other stay focused, motivated, and effective as ministers? 

   

  Beth El Study Fellowship would like to invite ministers to take part of a weekly forum and begin share our hurts and find sympathy from other pastors in our midst; we must humbly express our needs and receive loving care; we must forgive one another rather in being competitous or engaging in debates; we must pray for each other; we must start being careful not to say things that will birth conflicts and unnecessary hurt; we must be honest with each other about who we are; we must seek to do good for others; and resolve our conflicts peaceably as we look to biblical principles for answers.

   

  Beth El Stuay Fellowship's Pastoral School of Ministry will commence Sunday, October 4, 2009  at 5 PM.  All Yeshua-centered ministers from various denominational lines are encouraged to join other men and women of El-Elyon to this special day set aside for ministers.

   

  This is not for everyone but for ministers who have passion for the Word and want to succeed in carrying out our God-given call, and will allow Yahweh to prepare the soil of our hearts, so that we can be ready to receive His instruction and healing message.

   

  Delayed Obedience Is Disobedience.

   

  Contact the ministry line should you have any questions.

   

  May Yahweh be your rear guard this day.

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