Sentences with phrase «considering leaving the ministry»

Despite the stresses which clergy feel, a wholesale exodus from parish ministry does not seem likely; while 13 per cent said they would consider leaving the ministry if they were equipped to do well in another profession, almost everyone else said they would probably stay in the field anyway.

I've never been a pastor so I can't personally say how great it is, but one of my closest friends found a lot of comfort there when he was considering leaving the ministry.

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Another option younger clients should consider when they leave their parent's health plan is a health - care sharing ministry, such as Medi - Share or Christian Healthcare Ministries, CFP Tyler Gray said.

You write that 80 percent of pastors (and 84 percent of their spouses) are discouraged in their ministry roles, that 40 percent say they have seriously considered leaving the pastorate in the past three months, and that 70 percent say they don't have a single close friend.

So when the pastor of a city church called to say he was going back to the mission field and asked if we would consider leaving our current ministry to help this dying church, it wasn't real inviting.