Ministries Serving Pastors
Standing Stone Ministry is a non-profit ministry comprised of experienced ministry leaders committed to caring for pastors and their spouses at risk of leaving the ministry prematurely.
- Healthy shepherds lead healthy flocks.
- Strong and healthy ministry leaders develop strong and healthy followers of Jesus.
- Strong and healthy followers of Jesus advance the Kingdom of God.
Become a healthier ministry leader. Build a healthier ministry. Experience a trusted relationship with a Standing Stone shepherd today.
Alongside is a Christian ministry that fosters growth and renewal of mind, body and soul for missionaries, pastors and other leaders. Through retreats that offer professional counseling, teaching, and community, Alongside fosters restoration for those who have found themselves in difficult circumstances.
Imagine:
- Serving from a place of wholeness rather than frenzied existence
- Feeling in step with the Father rather than feeling distance
- Recovering from burnout, exhaustion, or trauma, and knowing how to move forward
- Coming to a place where your whole family can be cared for by people who understand the challenges of ministry
Imagine yourself at Alongside.
Ministry Coaches is non-profit ministry that uses “tools of ministry” that focus on the following:
- Coaching-Mentoring Relationships
- Couples Coaching Mentoring
- Crisis Counseling
- Inner Healing
- Ministry Consulting & Training
Dave and Jane Walters are here to serve you. Their desire is that pastors, spouses and lay-leaders stay healthy and fruitful in their calling.
“Without healthy leaders, we do not have healthy churches. I unreservedly recommend them as a resource for providing soul care for ministry leaders.” Rocky Rocholl, President of Fellowship pf Evangelical Churches.
Helpful Ministry Websites
GarySinclair.com
Gary Sinclair ministry is about restoring enthusiasm and passion in individuals, teams, organizations, and churches through fresh, creative thinking about their unrealized influence and impact. Through entertaining examples, like using a domino, Gary will leave a lasting impression with biblically based challenges that has motivated his listeners from around the world.
StrategicRenewal.com
Strategic Renewal is a para-Church ministry that exists to serve the local church and is characterized by an extraordinary commitment to the priority of prayer and the ministry of the word.
OneCry.com
Take the next seven days to journey with God and examine your relationship with Him. Every great movement of God has a beginning. Begin yours today!
RunHardRestWell.com
We know how to run hard. Do you and your team know how to rest well? Becoming a champion of rest revolutionizes God’s work in us and through us. It reacquaints us with the peace and quiet our souls have tried to live without.
Run Hard. Rest Well. equips people to embrace a pace and passion for work and rest that is biblical, transformative and sustainable.
CompassFinancialMinistry.org
Compass is a ministry that helps pastors and congregations use God’s Word to implement every area where money intersects with life…home, work, community.
Books That are Timeless
Mondays With my Old Pastor
Sometimes all we need is a reminder…
A totally burned-out young preacher reignites his faith and gathers wisdom for life while spending successive Mondays with an eighty-three-year-old pastor.
“Deep inside in some uncertain part of my soul persisted this strange exhaustion that was difficult to explain and hard to endure,” writes pastor and author José Luis Navajo. Thinking of quitting the ministry, Navajo doesn’t know where to turn until he begins meeting with a seasoned man of the cloth—his “old pastor”—who, through successive Monday visits, offers a legacy of wisdom in the form of 15 unique principles.
Mondays with My Old Pastor is an easy read that will give you hope and motivation for the whole week!
Resilient
A Path Toward Genuine Recovery and Resilience Through Jesus
In Resilient, John Eldredge invites readers to reclaim joy, strength, and peace in a world marked by stress, disappointment, and exhaustion. Acknowledging how deeply recent years have wounded the human soul, he offers a path toward genuine recovery rooted in following Jesus and embracing His supernatural resilience.
Drawing from Scripture, Christian tradition, and powerful true stories, Eldredge provides practical guidance to help readers recover from trauma, cultivate patience in the healing process, and build daily rhythms that foster spiritual and emotional strength. Ultimately, Resilient points to Christ within us as the deep well of freedom and endurance we need to not just survive—but thrive.
The Good Shepherd
Previously titled “While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks”
This devotional classic by Timothy S. Laniak invites readers on a 40-day journey of daily reflections on biblical leadership, making it both a personal resource and a valuable tool for pastors to share with their teams. Through the rich biblical image of the shepherd, Laniak brings the realities and rewards of leadership to life in a way that is both practical and deeply spiritual.
Featuring vivid insights drawn from encounters with Bedouin shepherds, the book calls leaders to become compassionate providers, courageous protectors, and competent guides. Endorsed by Billy Graham and other ministry leaders, this timeless resource challenges pastors to rediscover Christ—the Divine Shepherd—and lead with a heart shaped by Him.