Chapel Hill Retreat - Joice, IA | Offering rest and restoration for pastors.

Startling Statistics

  • 1,500 Pastors leave the ministry each month because of moral failure, spiritual burnout, or contention in their churches

  • 50% of Pastors are so discouraged that they would leave the ministry if they could, but have no other way of making a living

  • 80% of seminary and Bible School graduates who enter the ministry will leave the ministry within the first five years

  • 70% of Pastors do not hae a close friend, confidant or mentor

  • 70% of pastors constantly fight depression

This is taken from George's Barnas studies of the trends of the church and the society we live in.

 

 
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