THE OWNER’S DESIGN MINISTER __________________________


This issue of the Framework e - newsletter is on Keeping Balance in Ministry



MINISTRY PERSPECTIVES __________________________________

* Serving Strong – Life Balance for Ministry Servants Life - a website of Coaching... simple, safe and significant. A helping relationship within which you can process your profession without fear of judgment or condemnation. Helping you weave tailored threads of balance & self - care into the fabric of your ministry.

http://www.servingstrong.com/index.html

* A Winning Pace: How To Balance Family Life With Ministry Demands This are poses the question: Pastor, are you setting a pace in your personal and professional life that will allow your marriage, family, staff, and congregation to win?
http://enrichmentjournal.ag.org/200101/0101_150_balance.cfm

* Pastor Care – This website at PastorCare says “we care about you and we want to help. Whatever you are going through, PastorCare wants to be there; Preventing conflict in the pastor's life and ministry, Encouraging hurting pastors with words of hope, and Connecting pastors in need with people who care.

http://www.pastorcare.org/

BOOK AWARENESS ______________________________________


Clergy Self Care: Finding a Balance for Effective Ministry by Roy Oswald

Nationally known for his work and teaching on clergy development, Oswald integrates research and experience into a liberating perspective on the pastoral calling. Discover how imbalances in your physical, emotional, spiritual, and intellectual lives can destroy the very ministry you seek to carry out. Learn what you can do to restore that balance. Packed with self - assessment tools, real - life experiences, and specific self - care strategies.

http://www.amazon.com/Clergy - Self - Care - Effective - Ministry/dp/1566990440

Everybody‘s Normal Until You Get To Know Them by John Ortberg

This is not a book for normal people to learn how to handle difficult people - - there is no such thing. This is a book about how imperfect people can pursue community with other imperfect people. Winner of the Retailers Choice Award.

http://www.amazon.com/Everybodys - Normal - Till - Know - Them/dp/0310228646/ref=sr_1_1/104 - 6956362 - 6807112?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1181589228&sr=1 - 1


OWNER’S DESIGN SAYINGS _________________________________

“Daily time alone with God is essential to filling our emotional tank for our day’s encounter with our church family and the evening return to our spouse. Only God can fully equip us for both.” Danny Von Kanel

"When we enter relationships with the illusion that people are normal, we resist the truth that they are not. We enter an endless attempt to fix them, control them, or pretend that they are what they're not. One of the great marks of maturity is to accept the fact that everybody comes `as is.'" John Ortberg

“Personal care of our souls falls at our feet. The way we spend our time is in our hands. The opportunities to “get away from it all” are within our grasp. Maintaining priorities is fully within our reach to do so.”

BIBLE SNIPPETS _________________________________________

“And it came to past in those days that He (Jesus) went out into a mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God.” Luke 6:12

“Casting all your care upon Him, for He careth for you.” I Peter 5:7


DANNY R. VON KANEL MINISTRY LIBRARY ____________________

Know Your Limits (How to recognize when ministry takes its toll – and how to stay balanced) – found in the summer, 2008 issue of Enrichment Journal, pg. 160. Also located online at:

http://enrichmentjournal.ag.org/200803/200803_160_KnowLimits.cfm

OWNER’S DESIGN CONFERENCE IS AVAILABLE __________________

Contact Danny Von Kanel at dannyvon@bellsouth.com This is a weekend conference with your church leadership to show them how to build your church by the Owner’s Design. Danny’s expenses are on a love offering basis or fee worked out between the pastor and Danny. Call 985 - 735 - 8880 or 985 - 516 - 4550. Waiting for your call.

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