The purpose of this training guide is to provide a simple, concise tool to help ministerial spouses mentor their peers.

 

Many pastoral spouses are seeking help with the challenges they face. From the outset of their role as ministerial spouses, they are - for the most part - enthusiastic, passionate, and optimistic. In general, they haven’t thought about the challenges of their position: protecting and nurturing their own self-esteem; raising pastors’ children; how to roll with the punches of job security or lack thereof; how to exercise the faith needed when facing financial collapse; how to handle personal attacks and unrealistic expectations by others; or burnout.

 

Though a mentoring relationship will not erase the above-mentioned situations, it can help spouses establish the internal fortitude to meet these giants without irreparable damage. 

 

This manual is a tool to help you understand the relationship between the mentor and the mentee and the roles of the mentor and mentee and give you knowledge and skills to help guide

pastoral spouses through the challenges of ministry

that include their personal life, family life, church life and

community life.