Tag: wellbeing
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Advice to clergy: pace your workload for Christmas
Advice to clergy: pace your workload for Christmas With the Christmas season approaching, clergy will be even busier than usual with Advent preparations, Christmas services and events, increased community engagement and media opportunities, and the ordination weekend, as well as the hectic, but fun, end-of-year family activities. Finding balance during this period can be challenging…
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Caring for your parish priest is a vital task
The Diocese of Newcastle has recently produced an excellent resource called ‘Caring for your Parish Priest‘. It opens with some quite shocking statistics about clergy wellbeing from research in the UK and USA. Findings include: 85% of church leaders have considered leaving the ministry. 70% consider themselves lonely and do not have close personal friends,…