Pastoral Care & Staff Benefits
    

Providing access to the practical resources and pastoral care that will enable EFCA pastors to serve with excellence over a sustained period of time, EFCA Pastoral Care Ministries’ goal is sustainable effectiveness.  Read more: about why we do, what we do, the way we do it.  We create partnerships for a healthy future.




Spanish Publication: Creando companerismo para un futuro saludable.


	   
   




	
    
        
        
			
      
			

				
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Resources for EFCA Pastors

				Do you hate the idea of an annual review?  It's ok to dislike ineffective ones.  How about ideas for an annual evaluation that is actually effective? Steve Musser, EFCA Eastern District Superintendent, describes models you are going to find helpful in "Appearing Before the Council."  Discover other resources for EFCA Pastors.				
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MinisterConnection Placement Service

			
			Forest Lakes District Student Ministries Director Rob Wiese says "MinisterConnection gives a depth of insight into a pastor's theology, personality, and ministry history.  It helps the church narrow the search to candidates who fit the role to which they are being called and the team they will be joining."			
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EFCA Ministerial Association

			
			At its annual meeting Rev. Curt Mudgett (Montrose, CO) and Chaplain Bill Wick (Northfield, VT) were approved to serve on the Board of the EFCA Ministerial Association for a 3 year term.  Don't miss the latest issue of the Ministerial Forum, "Honoring One Another" featuring an article by past Chairmen Mike Andrus and current Chairman Tom Macy.			
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Healthy Pastors for Healthy Churches

			
			Everyone needs a "brain to pick, an ear to listen, and a push in the right direction".  The "I'm Growing!" material provides a simple approach to life- long learning you might find helpful.  Check it out.			
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Disability Insurance

			
			Protect your church staff’s income with EFCA group long term disability insurance. If you currently have a long term disability insurance carrier, ask if they include your pastor’s housing allowance as a part of the covered income. The EFCA‘s plan does!			
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Recovery Church Ministry

			
			Circumstances can result in the need to step out of pastoral  ministry for a while.  We understand.  If that happens to be your situation, wherever you are or wherever you'd like to be, we have a place and a team ready to help.  We have come alongside over 120 EFCA pastoral families the past 20 years.  The stories of recovery are priceless.			
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Why a network of recovery churches?



A variety of circumstances can lead to a decision to leave the ministry for a while.  The EFCA Pastoral Care Ministries has trained a network of Recovery Churches ready to bring healing to any pastor who feels wounded in the process of serving.  Each recovery church has identified a team of caring individuals to welcome and care for the pastoral family in need of help.  The network stretches from the east to the west coast and from the upper Midwest to the southern United States.  Wherever you are and wherever you’d like to be, we have a place and a team ready to help.



Does it work?



Santa Margarita Community ChurchRobert Campbell, pastor of Santa Margarita Community Church, tells in this 5 minute audio of God’s gracious, providential moving in his life.  Past the hard times of leaving one church, to healing in an EFCA Recovery Church and being lead full circle to lead a new, loving EFCA community church.




God has used this ministry for 20 years.  More than 120 stories of recovery could be shared.  You may have heard one of them directly from the family who was helped.  We allow them to tell their story when and to whom they wish.  Most would echo the promise of James 4:11, "God cares, cares right down to the last detail." (The Message)



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Pray for the 12 pastors and their families who are presently somewhere between "we are just getting started" to "we are close to feeling healthy and whole again."




Local Recovery Church Team Leaders gather yearly to learn from one another.  To becoming a Recovery Church or to discuss the possibility of being helped by a Recovery Church, email: pastoralcare@efca.org.  Your contact is confidential.



 

        
    
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