Encouraging Your Pastor…

• Pray for them every day.
• Send an email showing them appreciation
• Send them a greeting card with a personal message inside.
• Give them a hug.
• Stop by the church and wash some windows.
• Take them to lunch.
• Give them monetary gifts.
• Make yourself available and offer your services.
• Mow their lawn or shovel their driveway.
• Visit someone in the hospital.
• Call a home-bound church member.
• Call them and ask what kind of pizza they like. Order it, pay for it, and have it sent to their home.
• Call them at an appropriate time and say, “In my bible reading this morning I read that _________. What does that mean?”
• Drop off some doughnuts, bagels, or fruit to the church office for the entire staff to enjoy.
• After a sermon, don’t tell him it was a great sermon. Pick out something specific from the sermon and comment directly on that. So many people tell him his sermon was “great” that he realizes their comment is the same as an American asking, “How are you?” We don’t really mean it … it’s just a greeting.
• Write an article for the church website about how thankful you are for your pastor.
• Support your church financially.
• Get a group of people together to fast and pray for your pastor.
• Take him fishing.
• Buy them tickets to a special event.
• Write a story about them and read it during a church service.
• Put an ad in the local newspaper expressing your respect for your pastor.
• On Sunday, ask them what you can pray about for him this week. Then next Sunday ask them how things went regarding what you prayed for.
• If time is given during a service or event for public sharing, talk about something positive your pastor did recently that few people know about.
• Defend them against critics.
• Ask someone other than the pastor to pray before the next church meal.
• Give them a pastor appreciation gift.
• Write a letter to your church’s leaders expressing your gratitude for your pastor.
• Listen openly to their ideas for change.
• Sing your heart out at your church worship service.
• Clean the church.
• Tell them you appreciate them … and why.
• Write a letter of pastor appreciation to your church’s headquarters.
• Never publicly criticize them. If you have a concern or complaint, speak directly to them about it, or better, forgive him and forget it.
  

  Pray for our Pastors every day!

  Protection from the work of Satan.
  Help them keep a soft heart in the face of abrasive and abusive people. 
  Their personal spiritual growth.
  A successful ministry – however God defines success in their lives.