How can you help? Would you like to contribute a downloadable Word/Acrobat document in the areas listed below? Please send the article to tomswartzwelder@pdcpastort.com along with your name, address, telephone number AND permission to print the document. (Remember: this is a free website. All articles are free for worldwide distribution.) I will only include your initials in reference to the author. It is possible you may have some other subjects that pastors often struggle with. Feel free to forward those documents, too. Here are some subjects that may help our pastors, especially our younger pastors.
- For minister's wives: 18 ways to bless the pastor's wife. Keys to a Healthy ministry Mindset. How To Build Friend Relationships. How To Start A Pastor's Wives Support Group. Advice for Ministers' Wives from Ministers' Wives. Ministers' Wives: Battling Bitterness. 5 Tips for New Ministers' Wives.
- How to deal with a pastor search committee. Deal #1.
- How to resolve conflict in a church. Finding A Way Through Conflict by Dennis L. Burton and M. Wayne Oakes is excellent material for your church leadership. Resolve #1. Resolve #2.
- How to survive/defeat burnout. Burnout #1.Burnout #2.Burnout Cartoon.
- How to pay pastors. Free Minister's 2009 Tax Guide. Housing Allowance Mistakes. Major Mistakes for Paying Pastors. 2008 Compensation Study.
- How to handle church finances. Budget Basics. Good Financial Review Practices. Proper Handling of Benevolence Gifts. Four Coming Church Financial Firestorms. Insuring the Church/Staff.
- How to reduce the risk of termination. Reason #1. Reason #2. Reason #3. Reason #4. Reason #5.
- How to overcome defeat ("Across denominational lines 1,600 ministers PER MONTH are being dismissed or forced to resign." - Charles Chandler of Ministering to Ministers Foundation). Defeat #1. Defeat #2.
- How to understand Bible translations. PowerPoint Translation Presentation. Zondervan Samples. Best Selling Bible Translations. King James Italics Meaning. KJV Changes Listed. Translation #1. Translation #2. Translation #3. Translation #4.
- How to decide God’s will on which church to choose. Advice #1. Advice #2. Slide.
- How to decide when it is time to move on or stay. Why Pastors Get Fired. Time #1.
- How to manage my time more effectively. Manage #1. Pastor's Time Survey.
- How to remember names. Memory #1.
- Should I develop a secular skill for non-pastoring times? Skill #1.
- What about legalism? Legalism #1.
- How to counsel laid off workers.
- How to do church planting.
- Looking for a mission project? Try a Bible Seminary which trains Uganda pastors. Headed by a very special friend I have known for 40 years! Check out this Philippine national missionary.
- Defining Moments in Ministry.