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A Guide to Ministry Self-Care Richard P. Olson

A Guide to Ministry Self-Care By Richard P. Olson

A Guide to Ministry Self-Care by Richard P. Olson


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A Guide to Ministry Self-Care offers a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of both the causes of stress and strategies for effective self-care. Written for both new and long-time ministers, the book addresses a wide range of life situations and explores many forms of self-care, from physical and financial to relational and spiritual.

A Guide to Ministry Self-Care Summary

A Guide to Ministry Self-Care: Negotiating Today's Challenges with Resilience and Grace by Richard P. Olson

Ministry has never been an easy path, and the challenges of today's changing church landscape only heighten the stress and burn-out of congregational leaders. A Guide to Ministry Self-Care offers a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of both the causes of stress and strategies for effective self-care. Written for both new and long-time ministers, the book draws on current research and offers practical and spiritual insights into building and maintaining personal health and sustaining ministry long term. The book addresses a wide range of life situations and explores many forms of self-care, from physical and financial to relational and spiritual.

A Guide to Ministry Self-Care Reviews

A Guide to Ministry Self-Care provides clergy with a thoughtful, well-researched, comprehensive, and practical design for the kind of personal self-care without which fruitful ministry is impossible. Pastors at all stages of their ministries will find a multitude of ways to enhance their lives and work. -- Lovett H. Weems, Jr., distinguished professor of church leadership, Wesley Theological Seminary

About Richard P. Olson

Richard P. Olson retired as distinguished professor of pastoral theology at Central Baptist Theological Seminary in 2017. He served as minister for nearly forty years and is author of a number of books, including Ministry with Families in Flux (co-authored with Joe Leonard), selected by the Academy of Parish Clergy as one of the ten best books of 1990. Ruth Lofgren Rosell is associate professor of pastoral theology at Central Baptist Theological Seminary and associate pastor at Prairie Baptist Church. With more than twenty-five years of experience as an ordained minister, she specializes in pastoral counseling and is the 2013 winner of the American Baptist Pastoral Counselor Merit Award. Nathan S. Marsh is associate executive minister with the American Baptist Churches of the Central Region. Prior to this ministry, he served as pastor at First Baptist Church in Minneapolis, Kansas and Antioch Baptist Church in Ada, Kansas. He is particularly interested in reducing pastoral attrition and supporting pastoral leaders, especially in the early ministry years. Angela Barker Jackson is co-pastor of Gage Park Baptist Church and project director at Central Baptist Theological Seminary, where she focuses on addressing economic challenges facing future ministers. She is an ordained minister in the American Baptist tradition with experience in the areas of youth, poverty, and pastoral ministries, as well as theological education.

Table of Contents

Preface Part I: The Need for Self-Care 1.Ministering during a Rummage Sale after a Perfect Storm 2.Self-Care in a Variety of Ministries 3.Burnout and Compassion Fatigue 4.Stress Part II: Strategies of Self-Care 5.A Starting Place: Resilience 6.Spiritual Self-Care 7.Relational Self-Care 8.Physical Self-Care 9.Self-Care through Inner Wisdom 10.Self-Care through Laughter and Play 11.Financial Self-Care 12.Intellectual Self-Care 13.Basic Steps to Self-Care 14.A Theology of Self-Care Notes Bibliography About the Authors

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GOR013869152
9781538107980
1538107988
A Guide to Ministry Self-Care: Negotiating Today's Challenges with Resilience and Grace by Richard P. Olson
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Rowman & Littlefield
2018-09-10
242
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