How Many More Casualties?

Just how many more pastors and their families need to be cast away like yesterday's newspaper before we cry out against this injustice?

I met with a local pastor this week, he too has been attempting to heed God's call for change in the church. After coming to an impass several months back he felt it best to resign his post. Since then he has been left totally isolated from the denominational body that he and his family have served in for years. Not one call as to how he was doing... no one seems to be concerned with those who don't fit the typical mold... but wait there is another brother not far from here who is pentecostal through and through (even attends the ministerials) alas he and his wife are struggling in their church right now and guess what? Yes sir, they too are on their own. It would seem by all appearances that once you get placed in a church you are on your own baby. Pardon the expression - but that sucks!

Judi and I after spending 35 years within that same denomination have not been contacted by our leadership officers since our choosing to stay ministering in Osoyoos. We got a slap on the hands for being out of order and I can understand that, but what I don't get is the total lack of caring for one another as brothers and sisters. You'd be pretty hard pressed to sell that bill of goods to a non christian. People today are starving for relationships that work. God help us if the church can't do more than the world in that area. Is it any wonder we are loosing pastors to secular (not sure about that word) empoyment. Is it any wonder there is extreme lonliness in the ministry today?

God have mercy! We need you to reach out to the pastors and their precious families missing in action. God, please search out the MIAs in the prisons of discouragement.

What in the world is going on? Three pastors from the same denomination, within a 25 minute driving distance of each other, all seeking God's permission to be effective and relavent in this late hour - abandoned, neglected and seemingly judged not worth the effort by the very ones that should be loving on them. Absolutly inexcusable! The sad part is the denomination doesn't even blush, they just justify themselves. Shame on you!

Galatians 6:10 As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all [men], especially unto them who are of the household of faith.