Church leaders on the frontline of society’s challenges, are navigating crisis in well-being, mental health and cost of living. We will improve and expand our work with leaders, so they avoid spiritual, emotional, and mental burnout, and train them to support those who also face these pressures.
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It addresses crisis in spiritual and emotional well-being in church leaders preventing burnout, ministry related stress. It equips leaders to implement discipleship strategy to deal with crisis. 40% of church leaders show high risk of burnout, up 400% in 10 yrs, in 7 yrs reporting of “excellence”, spiritual wellbeing, and quality of life halved. High expectations, lack of boundaries, pastoral burden are reasons for crisis. Our identity-based discipleship approach has proven to make a difference.
To invest in our existing programmes and materials, to develop short form video format daily devotionals to accompany each current course to improve engagement and experience between sessions, promote more widely through Christian media (online and in print) and increase the capacity of each programme we run. Programmes are led by a member of staff, technical host, and trained, volunteer peer mentors who know the material and been in similar leadership positions to the participants.