Leader Health

What does a healthy leader look like?

What must be addressed to enable optimum capacity for leadership?

What components if not addressed, could diminish capacity or even disqualify a man or woman for ministry?

These are important questions to answer.  Consider the following statistics regarding pastors in the United States…

• The average pastor is at a church for 18 months
• The average pastor’s career today is only 14 years, less than one half the length of just a few years ago
• 1500 pastors in the U.S. quit every month because of conflict, burnout, or moral failure; one half of these leave the pastorate altogether
• Seventy-five percent report at least one significant crisis due to stress
• Eighty percent say ministry is affecting their families in a negative way
• Forty percent experienced “serious relational conflict” at least once a month
• Seventy percent experienced regular periods of major stress
• Ninety percent felt inadequately trained to do the job*

The health of the pastor and leader must be addressed so they can lead their churches into health.

So what are the components of leadership health?  We offer these...

Based on the eight qualities of a healthy church from Natural Church Development, we have chosen to address these eight priorities in a leader’s life.

How will we address these components?

Primarily through RLN’s… The Superintendent, or his representative, intends to meet with pastors and official workers three times each year in Regional LEAD Networks.

Regional- meeting in 9 regions throughout the district, all workers can conveniently attend.

LEAD- Leaders Encouraged, Aligned, and Developed.

Network- for encouragement, stimulation, and cooperation.

The dates of the RLN’s are on the district calendar.

For more information, contact us at office@sedcma.org .