David Cook offers a suggestion about study leave that I’d never considered before.
Go and study other pastors.
(One of the blessings that I have is opportunities to travel and interact with other pastors from around Australia. Including David himself. Which is wonderful because I’m a bit off the beaten path. But there are plenty of names in David’s post that I haven’t met yet.)
An excerpt:
Study leave is a helpful addition to a Minister’s Terms of Call.
A week can be used to attend one of the many conferences on offer or simply to sit in a College library and think.
Here is an idea you may not have thought of, for the use of study leave.
A minister asked me recently what I thought of him using study leave to go and shadow another minister for a week and learn from his approach to ministry, and who, I would suggest, to be shadowed. My response was that this was a fresh idea but a whole week may be a little long. Why not plan a safari and visit two or three ministers in a week. Get a close look at what they do, talk about what they are preaching and reading and hear of their plans for the future direction of their church.
Such a week would be a mutually edifying experience, because you have things to share as well.
Where could you go?
Read the post for David’s suggestions.
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