by Stephen Suffron | Mar 16, 2017 | Leadership, Ministry, Missions
“I remember when this whole place was full every Sunday. We even had people in the balcony.” The “good old days” can be an enemy to the pastor of a small church. People can often define success as getting things closer to what they used to be,...
by Stephen Suffron | Feb 16, 2017 | Leadership, Ministry
After posting your resume various places and daily asking God to lead you to the right place of ministry, you receive a call. It’s from Bob, head of the search committee at First Baptist No-Place-You’ve-Ever-Heard-Of. In your conversation, you learn that...
by Stephen Suffron | Feb 2, 2017 | Leadership, Ministry
When we were first looking into moving into a small town to pastor a small church, one of the things that made us nervous was the prospect of living in a church-owned parsonage. We had heard some horror stories over the years about pastors living in church housing...
by Stephen Suffron | Jan 5, 2017 | Leadership, Ministry
January is a time when people naturally reorder their priorities and try to start fresh in a better routine for the new year. We as pastors are no different. The Christmas season is over, and a more regular schedule gives us time to create a plan for following the...
by Stephen Suffron | Aug 30, 2016 | Leadership, Ministry
It’s been a little more than six years ago now that I was first contacted by the First Baptist Church in a little Arkansas town called Stephens. We had a common interest: they needed a pastor and God had called me to be one. Other than that, it wasn’t...
