by Dave Roberts » Tue Dec 24, 2019 10:47 am
I have met some of the licensed pastors, and we have had a few serve in our area. They are generally good people with limited qualifications, but they often fit well in churches who could never support a higher level of compensation. I have also seen the nightmares of a circuit. When I was in Grayson County, Virginia, we had a young clergy couple serving adjoining five church circuits. Together, they served ten congregations, some as often as every Sunday and some in as limited a capacity as once monthly. I can't imagine the stress of that diversified a ministry.