How YOU Can Be an Encouragement to Your Pastor
by Bill Allison

NOTE: The following is an interview the National Pastor's Prayer Network conducted with me a number of months ago.  It explains the heart and soul behind Cadre’s passion to equip YOU to be an encourager to your pastor.

Bill, your website states, "While Cadre Ministries will bring training to any size church, its special concern is the church with one pastor (and many volunteer leaders).”  Why this particular emphasis?

Larger churches have an inequitable voice in America because in America bigger means successful. You can question that all you want, but that's the way it is. While we don't have an ax to grind with bigger churches simply because they are larger, we want to passionately champion what God is doing in the “regular” church. (I refuse to say "smaller" church—because it implies inferiority in our culture—and I don't believe they’re inferior at all.) Since our ministry focuses on helping churches train volunteers to do ministry (Ephesians 4:11-12), we LOVE the regular church because they often already know that the key to effective ministry is training volunteers! Larger churches can hire staff. Good for them. But we honestly believe volunteers can do MINISTRY—real and significant ministry—lead people to Christ and disciple them—especially when they are TRAINED!

How was this a motivation to write Seven Biblical Ways God Wants YOU to Encourage Your Pastor?

We LOVE pastors! And quite frankly, we're sick and tired of seeing our best friends and colleagues get chewed up and spit out by sick churches. This doesn't happen at every church—but it does at too many. The problem is compounded because if a pastor talks about encouraging pastors—it can be seen as self-serving. So we said, "Hey--as stateside missionaries with years of experience in the church—we're in a great place to bring up the biblical idea of encouraging pastors." So we purposely set out to address what the Bible says about the subject... and let the Bible lead us to address the sticky issues of money, gossip, etc.

To finish the rest of the interview and learn how you can be an encouragement to your pastor, GO HERE.

Why not sneeze this special Pastor Appreciation edition of Cadre Connection to your friends right now… so they too can catch the encourage-pastor virus?  GO HERE. Sneeze this issue to your friends!

FREE:
Two Pastor Appreciation Resources

They’re FREE, they’re for YOU to share with others, and you can get the resources now—GO HERE.

Seven Biblical Ways God Wants You to Encourage Your Pastor

Seven Biblical Ways God Wants You to Encourage Your Pastor is a twenty-eight page interactive study guide/workbook that is designed to help you (and others in your church) encourage your pastor. It’s great for small groups, leadership retreats, Sunday school, or personal study. Your pastor needs your encouragement, and God wants YOU to make a difference in your pastor's life. Here's how... Seven Biblical Ways to Encourage Your Pastor

FREE:
Pastor Appreciation Goldmine

1. Why Your Pastor Needs Your Encouragement
2. Pastoral Statistics
3. In Honor of Long Haul Pastors
4. The Super Pastor Myth
5. Pastor Appreciation Month Info & Planning Guide

Just for Fun:
Special Pastor’s Edition

1. Why Your Pastor Needs Safe People
2. Why Your Pastor Might Go Bananas
3. The Pastor and the Lawn Mower

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