The Pain of Pastoring

Many pastors work up to seventy hours a week. No one experiences betrayal more than Pastors. No one loves with warm broken hearts more than pastors. No one bears the pain associated with pastoring more than their spouse. These sacrifices often time come at the peril of their families and personal lives. Many Pastors in America are bi-vocational. Meaning they have to juggle the struggles and stresses of ministry while at the same time balancing fulltime jobs. Because of this, many are depressed and feel hopeless while helping others. Some feel inadequate and demotivated. Many succumb to unhealthy habits. There is an undeniable pleasure, but a daunting pain that comes with the profession and call to the pastorate. In ministry for over twenty years and pastoring over a decade, Pastor Rich paints the grim reality that many parishioners would never know. Every pastor, who is part of the fraternal order in ministry, will understand, feel, and applaud the fact that their parishioners will finally know their pain. Allow Pastor Rich to take you behind the scenes of what many Pastors across the world experience. Be enlightened to The Pain of Pastoring!

Many pastors work up to seventy hours a week. No one experiences betrayal more than Pastors. No one loves with warm broken hearts more than pastors. No one bears the pain associated with pastoring more than their spouse. These sacrifices often time come at the peril of their families and personal lives. Many Pastors in America are bi-vocational. Meaning they have to juggle the struggles and stresses of ministry while at the same time balancing fulltime jobs. Because of this, many are depressed and feel hopeless while helping others. Some feel inadequate and demotivated. Many succumb to unhealthy habits. There is an undeniable pleasure, but a daunting pain that comes with the profession and call to the pastorate. In ministry for over twenty years and pastoring over a decade, Pastor Rich paints the grim reality that many parishioners would never know. Every pastor, who is part of the fraternal order in ministry, will understand, feel, and applaud the fact that their parishioners will finally know their pain. Allow Pastor Rich to take you behind the scenes of what many Pastors across the world experience. Be enlightened to The Pain of Pastoring!

Pastor Roderick Richardson is the founder, Lead pastor of The Word Center located in Jackson, Mississippi. Known to many as Pastor "Rich," he has been used by God to transcend socio-economic, denominational, political, religious, and educational boundaries. He is a rising new-generation leader that possesses an undeniable new energy and distinctiveness like no other. With skilled revelatory insights from the Word, God has blessed Pastor Rich to go into every man's world. Pastor Rich has been commissioned to go into every man's world to teach, preach, and speak to the multitudes. He is a motivational speaker, author, entrepreneur, mentor, life coach, and most importantly, a man after God's own heart. Pastor Richardson is a cutting-edge prophetic pioneer who delivers a relevant, real, and even sometimes raw life-changing word to the listeners. Led by God, and with his anointed wife by his side, the Richardson's gave birth to The Word Center, April 2010 that has now grown to over 2,000 in membership with three weekly services. Roderick and Tyronda Richardson are proud parents of one daughter, Taylor Grace.