{"id":3855,"date":"2025-10-05T10:21:02","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T15:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/?p=3855"},"modified":"2025-10-05T10:21:02","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T15:21:02","slug":"pastor-appreciation-month-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/2025\/10\/pastor-appreciation-month-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Pastor Appreciation Month 2025\u00a0\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pastor Appreciation Month is celebrated in October each year. a practice which began in 1992 when initiated by \u201cFocus on the Family\u201d and has since become a widely practiced time when we make special efforts to show how much we appreciate our pastor.\u00a0 While it has been expanded to include appreciation of all clergy, the primary focus remains on the senior pastor.\u00a0\u00a0I have known many pastors, from my earliest days of growing up with a pastor-father, to my years as a professor of several thousand future pastors.\u00a0\u00a0I have never known one who believed they had no need for prayer support.\u00a0\u00a0One of the greatest gifts you can give your pastor as a token of appreciation, is to be an intercessor, but don\u2019t just pray in generalities.\u00a0\u00a0Here are a few specific needs that may be easily overlooked:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pray, that in the midst of a busy schedule, your pastor will make time to be alone with God.\u00a0\u00a0He needs to speak often with God about the people before he speaks to the people about God.<\/li>\n<li>Sunday is a stress-filled day, so pray that your pastor will get a good night\u2019s sleep on Saturday.<\/li>\n<li>Since your pastor works on the sabbath, pray that he will be able to find and keep another day to rest and relax.<\/li>\n<li>Pray for the pastor\u2019s family, who from time to time, may need more prayer support than the pastor.<\/li>\n<li>My Farther used to say that a pastor had more friends than anyone else in town, but fewer close friends.\u00a0\u00a0Pray that your pastor has close friends.<\/li>\n<li>Pray that your pastor will have such a support team that vacation time does not have to be interrupted with church needs.\u00a0\u00a0I speak as one who grew up seldom having a full family vacation without some church member dying or needing emergency surgery.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Paul wrote, \u201dWe urge you, brethren, to recognize those who labor among you, and are over you in the Lord and admonish you.\u201d1 Thessalonians 5:12.\u00a0\u00a0As you \u201crecognize\u201d your pastor this month, be a strong prayer supporter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pastor Appreciation Month is celebrated in October each year. a practice which began in 1992 when initiated by \u201cFocus on the Family\u201d and has since become a widely practiced time when we make special efforts to show how much we appreciate our pastor.\u00a0 While it has been expanded to include appreciation of all clergy, 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