Week 2 “Administrative Work” Tuesday Blog
1) Who’d you interview and when? I interviewed Pastor Ryan on Monday 1/26/09 at 2:30PM.
2) How much administrative or “office” work does he do? Pastor Ryan says depending on the week when he is working he could put in from 20 to 40 hours. This week he said he would be putting in at least 40 hours. 8 of those hours include the billing and the mailers. The other hours include sermon preparation, meetings, training, counseling, graphic art for marketing and for the website. He didn’t give me the exact break down, but this seemed to be what he had for me.
3) I think this is a good reminder that there is a lot more that goes along with being a pastor than just preaching and teaching. Obviously, there are many hours that go into other tasks to help keep the church moving and keeping up in this society and time. I recognize that I must prepare and be ready to take on such tasks that go along with being a preacher. Basically it’s a WAKE up call to those who think being a preacher is going to be easy. Balancing all these things plus having a family and maybe even an extra job like Pastor Ryan does reminds us of how busy a life of a pastor can be.
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