Comments on: How Do Pastors Spend Their Time Each Week? http://willhumes.net/2008/02/05/how-do-pastors-spend-their-time-each-week/ "'Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid.'" — Frederick Buechner Sat, 11 Feb 2012 14:47:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: JRF http://willhumes.net/2008/02/05/how-do-pastors-spend-their-time-each-week/#comment-407 Fri, 15 Feb 2008 23:32:35 +0000 http://s37651.gridserver.com/?p=1233#comment-407 The expectation of 60 hours a week is unreasonable for the pay we receive but often times those hours are easily reached. People don’t understand that for a pastor that wants to help their church move ahead, the 45 hour week is just bare maintenance.

]]> By: PamBG http://willhumes.net/2008/02/05/how-do-pastors-spend-their-time-each-week/#comment-406 Wed, 06 Feb 2008 19:11:58 +0000 http://s37651.gridserver.com/?p=1233#comment-406 I’m a new minister and started using a program to count my hours worked; only because it helped me stop feeling guilty! I usually work 52 hours per week but I might actually top out this week at around 80! (A number of deadlines for next week.)

In the UK, many ministers don’t have administrative help and I spend an awful lot of time doing admin. Doing a mailing can take me all morning.

I also get the impression that people think that ministers all walk around with thousands of things to say in our heads and that sermon preparation is a few minutes here and there in our spare time when in reality it probably takes me 8 in total to write a sermon and a service.

Are home communions and visits to nursing homes ‘pastoral visits’ or ‘worship’?

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