Imagine The Best Job In The World!
Imagine what a difference it would make if every pastor in every congregation could look forward to a three-month sabbatical every four years! Imagine especially what a difference this would make to pastors serving smaller congregations. Nothing silly about that! Imagine what a difference it would make if high school students saw the ministry as…
The Great Commission and Home Exchanges
At a church I served as pastor, we had a guest pastor program called Pastors2Go. One of our guest pastors—on a clergy sabbatical from her job as Chaplain at the University of Leeds England—was leading a Bible study. Both she and her husband shared the importance of going and doing for Christian discipleship. They shared…
Ministry Sabbaticals 101
At Christian Home Exchange, we believe that the world will be a better place once pastors and all Christians take seriously the word, “Go,” as in “Go, therefore …” (Matthew 28:19). Many refer to the world these days as the Global Village, but it seems to me that most of us are just sitting around…