K i l l s
message they heard
didn’t
help
them
because they weren’t
united in faith with the ones who
listened to it. We who have faith
are entering the rest.” Hebrew
4.1-3
You Are Not Alone in your
pursuit for work life balance
There is a Global Paradigm Shifts
in work/Leisure and Health and it
is also affecting the Church. The
table before reveals this:
1,500 pastors leave their ministries
each month due to burnout,
conflict, or moral failure.
The Rest of the Story
“The hardest thing about these
numbers is that they only tell
half the story. The other half is
that congregations don’t know or
understand the nature of pastoral
stress. And when a pastor breaks
down or has a moral failure,
congregations, for lack of a better
word, “kick the pastor to the
curb.” Whether you are a pastor,
a former pastor, or a congregation
member, I hope these clergy
burnout statistics help clarify the
problem. And more importantly,
I hope they help you focus your
ministry to pastors. Pastor burnout
statistics are only numbers. Read
some pastor burnout stories to
put faces to the statistics.”
Jargon
Buster
Brexit
Read more:
www.pastorburnout.com/pastor-
burnout-statistics.html Accessed
16/06/17
UK, Teenagers’ stress and
anxiety levels are at an all-
time high
• Teenagers are suffering
record levels of anxiety,
Government report finds
• Middle-class children have
higher levels of stress, the
research discovered
• Reliance on tablets and
smartphones could be
contributing to their anxiety
• Middle-class children the
worst affected
Read more:
www.dailymail.co.uk/health/
article-3727507/Teenagers-stress-
anxiety-levels-time-high-middle-
class-children-worst-affected.
html#ixzz4kwopzjxc Accessed 16/06/17
Impact on home life
Stress levels are also high
among teens in the USA.
Typically both parents work to
day and close behind is the single
parent households which is fed
by mounting divorce rates.
Read more:
http://www.catalyst.org/knowledge/
working-parents
www.apa.org/monitor/2014/04/teen-
stress.aspx
https://www.soundvision.com/article/
statistics-about-mothers-around-the-
world Accessed16/06/17
The UK withdrawing its membership
from the EU after a referendum
in 2016. Soft-“Supporters of a
“soft” Brexit imagine a future
where the UK retains some form
of membership of the European
Union single market in return for a
degree of free movement.”
Hard- “For those who back a
“hard” Brexit - or “clean” Brexit
as supporters prefer - the better
option is to leave the EU and the
single market entirely and then
have a relationship based - at
least initially - on World Trade
Organization rules.”
bbc.co.uk/news/business-37500140
accessed 28/06/17
Islamophobia
In a 1991 Runnymede Trust Report
...defined as “unfounded hostility
towards Muslims, and therefore
fear or dislike of all or most
Muslims.” The term was coined in
the context of Muslims in the UK in
particular and Europe in general
and formulated based on the
more common “xenophobia”
framework.
crg.berkeley.edu/content/islamophobia/
defining-islamophobia Accessed
26/06/17
Wahhabism
A form of Islam practised in Saudi
Arabia that developed only in
the 18th century. Its founder, Ibn
Abd al-Wahhab wanted to return
to the earliest teachings of his
faith and eject all later medieval
accretions. He therefore opposed
Sufism and Shiaism as heretical
innovations (bidah), and he
urged all Muslims to reject the
learned exegesis developed
over the centuries by the ulema
(“scholars”) and interpret the
texts for themselve s.
newstatesman.com/world-
affairs/2014/11/wahhabism-isis-how-saudi-
arabia-exported-main-source-global-
terrorism Accessed