Make a point of looking for ways – all year long – that you can offer “ a word fitly spoken.” Drop your pastor a note, e-mail, or social media message of support. Repeat to your youth pastor something positive your child has said about him or the youth group. ![]() Tell your minister of music you really enjoyed the choir anthem this morning. Brighten your pastor’s day by telling him something specific you learned during the sermon. Pastors get a lot of complaints, criticism, and words of discouragement. (And don’t forget to periodically tell them you’re praying for them!) Need some suggestions on how to pray? Check out my article Top 10 Ways to Pray for Your Pastor. Pastor Appreciation Month is a perfect time to make a commitment to pray for your pastors on a regular basis. Time and again, when pastors are surveyed about what their church members can do to bless them the most, the number one answer is, “Pray for me.” Your pastors need you to pray for them personally, in their work, for their marriages and families, and for the health of your church. Be sure you show all of them (there’s nothing worse than being left out while everybody else is being appreciated) your appreciation for their hard work, and your encouragement, support, and love not just during Pastor Appreciation Month, but all year through. And that goes for your minister of music, associate pastor, youth pastor, etc., too. If you have a good pastor, who rightly divides God’s Word and is a man of godly character, you are very blessed. If you’ve never been a pastor (or been married to one), it’s difficult to adequately convey just how simultaneously challenging, joyful, devastating, frustrating, and fulfilling it can be. ![]() I’m so glad somebody thought up the idea of Pastor Appreciation Month and made it a thing.
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