Clergy, Retirement, and Wholeness - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Clergy, Retirement, and Wholeness write by Gwen Wagstrom Halaas. This book was released on 2005-06-01. Clergy, Retirement, and Wholeness available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What would you wish for in retirement? Good health? Financial Stability? A supportive social community? Retiring well is everyone’s goal, but accomplishing this end requires planning and effort. Family physician Gwen Halaas recognizes the challenges professional caregivers such as clergy experience as they try to practice good self-care, particularly as they approach the significant changes inherent in retirement.
Clergy Renewal
Clergy Renewal - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Clergy Renewal write by Richard Bullock. This book was released on 2000-04-01. Clergy Renewal available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Planned time away from the parish for study, rest, and spiritual renewal can be beneficial-and often necessary-for any pastor, as well as for the congregation. In this thoroughly revised and expanded edition of Alban’s popular Sabbatical Planning for Clergy and Congregations, Bullock and Bruesehoff provide the definitive guide to putting together refreshing pastoral sabbaticals that can help keep ministry vital and growing for the long term
Clergy Retirement
Clergy Retirement - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Clergy Retirement write by Daniel A. Roberts. This book was released on 2017-11-22. Clergy Retirement available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Clergy Retirement: Every Ending a New Beginning for Clergy, Their Families, and Congregants, retirement is likened to a death experience, but much more. Besides saying goodbye to congregants, colleagues, and a career, it is equally important, as in any other loss, to take time to grieve aernd then to discover new meaning in life through which to reinvent oneself and grow to new heights. This book is a manual for transition into a new world as one approaches retirement. It not only encourages the retiree to think through the process of making new meaning, but offers practical suggestions of how to do so.
The Jubilee Years
The Jubilee Years - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Jubilee Years write by Bruce Epperly. This book was released on 2020-11-28. The Jubilee Years available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Taking inspiration from the Spanish word for retirement—jubilacion—veteran minister Bruce Epperly challenges and empowers clergy to see retirement as a celebration of new possibilities. Similar in spirit to the Jubilee year described in scripture, retirement can be a time of transformation and exploration, of freedom to try on new versions of yourself and new paths of service. In that spirit, clergy can embrace creative transformation in their relationships, neighborhoods, religious communities, and politics. No longer tethered to the politics and administrative duties of congregational leadership, they can now freely commit themselves to relational, intellectual, and spiritual growth. They can also focus on personal, community, and planetary healing and transformation. Retired clergy can become sages and wisdom givers sharing their insights and energy with seminarians and novice pastors, congregations, and communities. Bringing together the fruits of conversations with more than 100 retired clergy, theological reflection, and spiritual practices, this text provides a way forward for clergy considering retirement and retired clergy. Based on interviews from persons from diverse denominations, theological perspectives, and ethnic and racial backgrounds, this book garners wisdom from pastors on their retirement journeys, from personal preparation and public announcement to first steps following retirement and long-term adventures.
The Pastor-Congregation Duet
The Pastor-Congregation Duet - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Pastor-Congregation Duet write by Gary Harder. This book was released on 2018-09-28. The Pastor-Congregation Duet available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In a time of shifting worldviews and changing expectations of the church, how does a pastor navigate the challenges, joys, and pains of ministry? How does a church support, love, and hold accountable its pastoral leaders? The key lies in the relationship between pastor and congregation – in the duet they are singing, in the rhythms of their life together. In this book, Gary Harder reflects on the difficulties and rewards, the missteps and humour that are part of learning that ministry duet. Here he celebrates the mysterious ways God works through, and sometimes in spite of, the people singing God’s songs together. We reach for harmony. We hear dissonant notes. We catch only a glimpse of God’s beautiful music. And that is enough.
