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Page 4B/The BattalionAVednesday, September 2 1987
Clergy members
express their needj:
for taking time off bU
WACO (AP) — A pastor’s occupa
tion is sometimes viewed as a 21-
hour-a-day, seven-day-a-week call
ing by congregations and by pastors
themselves.
But mental health professionals
and clergy members say they have
found that pastors, like other pro
fessionals, need a regular day off.
Ministers who feel pressured to
spend all of their time tending the
flock may not make such good shep
herds, some say.
Ken Jordan, a consultant in the
Southern Baptist Sunday School
board’s family ministry department,
said in an article in the Baptist Press
that “It’s easy to become so en
meshed in the life of the congrega
tion that we have no lives of our
own. The greatest need in some
ministers' families is the ability to say
no.”
Most people agree that pastors
have a highly stressful job, compara
ble with the demands on a doctor.
Pastors must deal on emotional and
organizational levels and must Ik*
available to their congregation for
emergencies.
Dr. Barry Click of the Samaritan
Counseling Center in Waco, said he
believes the main pressures are be
ing a public figure and meeting the
expectations of others.
“Usually, he or she is the main
person, the chief staff person, and
there’s a tremendous pressure on
chem to meet everyone's expecta
tions,” he said.
Other Waco pastors agree on the
need to take a break.
“In the dynamics of ministry,
there is the give and take, and the
minister lands most often in the pos
ture of giving," says the Rev. Jim
Johnson of Calvary Baptist Church.
The Rev. Delbert Taylor of
Sparks Memorial United Methodist
Church said he found he would get
so involved with people and their
problems that he would need to get
away. And the Rev. William Ander
son of Christ American Lutheran
Church says he needs a day off to re
cuperate from the emotional drain
of dealing with people, especially in
crisis situations.
Pastors sometimes have to get be
yond feelings of guilt in order to al
low themselves needed time off,'
Click said.
The Rev. Jim Abel of Austin Ave
nue United Methodist Church said
feelings of guilt are “always a real
struggle. I think it’s almost an occu
pational hazard.”
“Most ministers I know are con
scientious, and you could say, con
scientious to a fault,” Click said.
“They’re trying to model God’s
love for humankind. It’s difficult for
them to let go of that ethic for ‘self-
indulgence.’
“The role is so powerful in terms
of expectations, one of the struggles
is for them to come to terms with
their limitations.”
Click said Jesus himself went away
from the crowds to be by himself.
‘‘The longer I’m in the ministry,
the more I realize that it really is im
portant,” said Anderson. He said he
used to be concerned with taking a
day off, but now advises other pas
tors to “take it seriously.”
“Talking to retired pastors over
the years, most of them will say if
they had anything to do over, it
would he to spend more time with
their family,” Anderson said.
One difficulty some may have is
relaying their need for a day off to
their congregations.
“The congregation has to kind of
enter into a companion covenant
with their pastor to look at the pas
tor’s limitations,” Click said. “The
pastor has to he instructive to his ot
her people so they learn his limita
tions and they learn not to make ex
cessive demands on themselves.”
The Rev. Paul Taft of St. Alban’s
Episcopal Church said his congrega
tion honors his day off pretty well,
and usually only intrudes in an
emergency. In dealing with some
one who calls on his day off in a non
emergency situation, Taft said,
“Generally, I try to be tactful and
not act irritated, but I also remind
them that it’s my day off.”
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