THE PROBLEM
You are still in ministry. You just can’t find yourself in it.
It is not weakness, and you are not the only one.
41%
of Adventist pastors report physical or emotional exhaustion.
Global Adventist Pastors’ Survey 2022–2023 — GC Office of Archives, Statistics and Research with the Institute of Church Ministry, Avondale University, Newbold College and the Australian Union Conference. Figure as published by ASTR; the 2024 report states the same item as 15% strongly agree plus a further 29%.
WHAT WE ARE BUILDING
Three words for one working life.
Hard, healthy and happy are not three programmes. They are three tests applied to the same week of ministry — and a week that fails any one of them will not last.
01 PURPOSE
02 HOLINESS
03 MEANING
Hard work
Healthy work
Happy work
Ministry is labor, and we do not apologize for that. What we refuse is the confusion between hard work and endless work. You will leave with a declared standard and a declared limit for your week — and with an honest audit of what that delivery actually buys you.
A rule of life you write yourself, small enough that you will actually keep it: prayer, Scripture, a Sabbath genuinely kept, and someone who knows the truth about you. Not more discipline — the right order.
Joy that does not depend on results, on the board, or on being noticed. This is the part no reorganization can give you and no frustration can take — and it is the reason the other two are worth defending.
HOW IT WORKS
Nine sessions. Not a conference.
Nine online sessions of two and a half hours — the first three a fortnight apart, then every three weeks — in a group small enough that no one hides. About about an hour and three quarters a week for six months — and it costs the participant nothing.
09
12
03
18
sessions of 2h30, online
pastors per cohort
documents you leave with
months, counting the year after
01
Naming: Which of the five is yours — said out loud.
02
Horeb: Sleep, touch, food — and not one word of rebuke.
03
Differentiation: Connected without being absorbed. Your partner is chosen here.
04
Friendly fire: Moral injury has a name, and a scale.
05
The undivided heart: Serve without fear, pretence, or reward.
06
The three angles and the rule: Written in the room — with your spouse present.
07
The subversive pastor: A declared standard and a declared limit.
08
The institution and me: Why the organization frustrates without betraying.
09
What remains: One thing, twelve months, one partner already working.
BEFORE ANYONE APPLIES
The conference pays first.
A pastor cannot rebuild a working life inside a system that has not agreed to change with him. Five commitments are signed by the conference before the cohort opens. Without them, it does not run.
None of the five is a new policy. All five are already obligations or practices described in the Seventh-day Adventist Minister’s Handbook (2009), pp. 24, 30, 31 and 47. What is asked is that they be honored in writing, before the cohort begins
Nothing said in the cohort reaches an employment file. The only exceptions are the three the church itself already names: child abuse, elder abuse, and a threat against someone’s life (Minister’s Handbook, p. 136).
FIRST OPEN COHORT
Twelve pastors. Eighteen months that count.
The program is not commercial: it costs the participant nothing, at any stage. The pilot cohort runs by invitation; the waitlist is for the first open cohort. Join it and you will receive the full design — the diagnosis, the nine sessions, and what the conference signs — before applications open.
SIX TRACKS
Church Gospel Centered
Apostolic Leadership Structure
Church Government System
Vocational Holiness
Church Revitalization
Church
Planting