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Have you experienced burnout?
I am thinking I am beginning to experience burnout, we have been in our first pastorate for a year and half now, we are part of a church plant where we are the youth pastors. We currently do not have a building so we rent a building which means setup and tear down every weekend, we have done this with no break week in and week out, with doing other events in between. I think it is burnout because everything thing that is being done is bothering me even the smallest little thing that may be done by others in the church. Have any of you dealt with burnout personally and how did you overcome it. We have a short vacation coming up next month and are really looking forward to just getting away.
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Some good advice below. Be open with your pastor and board and ask them for some time away to rekindle, refresh, relax, re-energize. Faithfully take one day a week off, and some weeks add another one. REMEMBER...GOD & FAMILY first, church after. |
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Sounds like you might be doing to much "stuff." Talk to the other pastors, elders, older guys, whatever you call them and tell them what you're going through. Maybe get groups of guys to take turn tearing everything down so it's not the same people. Cut down what you're putting up. I'm with the others. If you hit the ground sprinting...you're gonna hit it with your face. Slow down. Don't neglet personal time with God. It sounds like your heart is in the right place but you're so bogged down that you keep looking at the tree and are missing the forest.Learn to say NO as well. I find that when I'm doing what God has called me to do, I don't burn out and am energized. When I do what everyone else tells or asks me to...I burnout quickly |
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You are definitely getting a taste of "burnout"!! The other guys shared some great advice, so I'll keep mine short and to the point ;) |
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I have and am experiencing it now. It is of the utmost importance that you do not go through this alone; I hope you can talk to and confide in your senior pastor. Tell them about it; they have to be the ones to support you and pray for you during this time. YOU MUST DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS NOW!!! I let this go on too long and now I am just numb. Pray about the whole everything bothering you thing. You will not be able to be effective dealing with that issue. Come against it and get help quick!! |
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when i face burnout, i try to take some personal time. I began youth ministry sprinting and it rocked me. |
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I've been at my church for 7 years, a volunteer for 6, and staff for the last 1 year. Until this previous fall, we rented a hotel each Sunday, being there from 6AM-2PM was a pretty regular thing for me to be doing, (on top of a full time and a 1/2 time job.) |
