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24. Care for your pastor economically, emotionally and physically.

25. Have a genuine testimony in your work. The strongest message that your pastor preaches is the message of your life, work, and home, etc.

26. Greet other pastors that come to visit your church to preach.

27. Allow your pastor to spend time with his family and do not be critical when he does.

28. Take good care of your personal life speaking of your devotional time.

29. Never speak to your pastor in anger.

16. Win souls. Witness of your faith to others. 

17. Have a forgiving spirit.  When you do not forgive others your bitterness and anger hinder the work of God. 

18. Learn to over come your problems.  It is hard to encourage others in the Lord if we haven’t learned to encourage ourselves in the Lord. 

19. Choose the right time to speak with the pastor about difficult things.  It is better to not bring hard things before the service or even right after.  Get an appointment to speak to him when he has sufficient time. 

20. Remember the special times in the personal life of the pastor.  His anniversary, his birthday, etc.  Your church will be blessed for having taken care of your pastor in this manner because God is going to bless and provide according to how you take care of His man. 

21. Celebrate his anniversary as pastor of the church. 

22. Tell your pastor often that you love him. 

23. Don’t listen to those who are critical of your pastor.

11. Be faithful to the services and meetings of your church. This will also be a blessing to you and your faithfulness will encourage others to be faithful also.

12. Invite others to the services and bring them with you.  Very few things will encourage your pastor like bringing someone new to the services.  When you bring a guest be sure and introduce the guest to the pastor and other friends in the church.

13. Tithe–be a giver.  Get your family together and tell them that we are at least going to tithe or give the minimum of 10% to our church to honor our God.

14. Give faithfully and sacrificially.  If the church is going to build, buy something, help a missionary or take a love offering your pastor should know that you will be doing your part.

15. Give to missions and pray faithfully for the missionaries your church supports as well as others of course.

6. Speak kindly to him when you see him.  You never know how many battles he has had to deal with that day.  It might be that God will use you to be a blessing in his life today just with the tone of voice that you use.

7. Take your children to meet the pastor and so that he can speak to them.  Teach them to love their pastor.

8. At least listen intently to his advice.  Your pastor is a man that walks with God and may just have the words that you need to hear.

9. Provide your pastor a personal library.  The church should help him buy books every month if possible.  Put this in the church budget because the books are his tools of the trade.

10. Say “amen” in the services.  You will encourage your pastor when you get involved in the service.  Your encouragement will help him to preach even better.

The following notes were written in Spanish and preached to the lay people of our churches in Peru.  I was trying to encourage them to love and encourage their pastors.  I was just going through some files and ran across this and thought that I would translate it for you.  I hope that it is a blessing. 

1.  Write your pastor an encouraging note.
2. Love and encourage his children.  Satan is always trying to destroy the pastor’s home! 
3.  Pray for him and his family on a daily basis.  Take his name before the throne of grace and also tell him that you are praying for him.
4. Let him know how his preaching has been a blessing in your life. Always try to find him and thank him for the message.  Give him details about how God used the message to be a blessing in your life.
5. Get to church on time.  The act of arriving late for the services will make your pastor think that what he has done to prepare a lesson or message to help you isn’t that important to you. 
6. More to follow! 

 We confirmed today that Pastor Wayne Cofield will be one of the special speakers at the conference.  He will preach on Monday night. We will start with a banquet for the Pastors, Staff, and missionaries at 5:30.  Special things will take place starting at 5 pm. If you are a pastor or missionary that can be with us you will be our quests.  The conference will be May 5-7 at Vision Baptist Church.  Contact us at 770-456-5881 to make sure we get you a reservation at the hotel and the meals.  Or you can email us at coffey@bcwe.org Click here to register 

Hudson Taylor’s prayer letter to home.

I have often asked you to remember me in prayer, and when i have done so there has been much need of it. That need has never been greater than at the present time. Envied by some, despised by many, hated perhaps by others, often blamed for things I never heard of, or had nothing to do with; an innovator on what have become established rules of missionary practice; an opponent of mighty systems of heathen error and superstition; working without precedent in many respects, and with few experienced helpers; often sick in body, as well as perplexed in mind and embarrassed by circumstances; had not the Lord been specially gracious to me, had not my mind been sustained by the conviction that the work is His and that He is with me in what it is not empty figure to call “the thick of the conflict,” I must have fainted and broken down. But the battle is the Lord’s, and He will conquer. We may fail, do fail continually, but He never fails. Still I need your prayers more than ever before.

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I would like to encourage all of those that read these posts to pray about a special offering for the Peru Bible College.  I would like to see God raise up monthly support and also some special offerings to cover the growing deficit until the monthly support comes in. These offerings would not only help cover the costs of the Bible College but that helps cover the printing ministry, the TV ministry, and many other things that are happening in Peru.  God has greatly used that ministry there in Arequipa.Betty and I spent 18 years of our lives building it.  A dear friend has given extremely heavy offerings every month for over 26 months now to cover the deficit but now the time has come for the money to be raised to get the Bible College on its feet.  Chris and Andria Gardner are in the states for that very purpose–to raise support for the Bible College and also personal support that has eroded due to an approximate 22% drop in the value of the dollar over the last several years. Jeremy Hall is also actively trying to raise support the Peru Bible College as this is a vital part of the ministry that God has called him to do.  If you are interested in knowing more you will be able to watch this video and see the impact of the Bible College on one young man’s life and the potential for others.  You can also contact either Chris or Jeremy by clicking on the links to their blogs or by making a comment here or writing me an email. God bless you!  Have a part in a wonderful eternity affecting ministry! 

“God may allow His servant to succeed when He has disciplined him to a point where he does not need to succeed to be happy. The man who is elated by success and is cast down by failure is still a carnal man. At best his fruit will have a worm in it.” A W Tozer This came from the business quote of the day put out by John Pearson and BCWE 

“Neither jail nor death scare a preacher of the glorious gospel. For our lives are hidden forever with Christ. In fact, we welcome jail, expulsion, and death as the cost for preaching the gospel following the example of our father’s in the book of Acts. We do not seek prison or death but will accept it with joy if God allows it to come. Our prayer is not for safety but boldness.”

I found this quote on a website of my friend in North Africa. What a statement! I will use this and think of this. I plan on memorizing it.