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Vacation from Vocation…

How is this done? Especially since Pastors and deaconesses can be “on call” at a moment’s notice.

Make sure everyone in the congregation is healthy before you plan a trip? :)

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Posted by Melissa DeGroot on Thursday, December 13, 2007, at 2:45 pm. Filed under Diakonia, Pastoral Ministry. Tagged , . Follow any responses to this post with its comments RSS feed. You can post a comment or trackback from your blog.

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  1. Schellenbach | December 13, 2007 at 3:15 pm | Permalink

    Simple. Ask a neighboring pastor to be “on call” for you at that time.

  2. Anonymous | December 13, 2007 at 6:03 pm | Permalink

    This was probably a silly question. But I was speculating on what seems to never fail that as soon as a pastor and his family plan a vacation, a major crisis happens. I guess I was merely highlighting what can be a difficult position for pastors especially. Is it easy to separate your self from those sorts of things and put on your vacation hat and go, regardless?

  3. Anonymous | December 14, 2007 at 4:49 pm | Permalink

    As a pastor for the last year and a half, I have been on two vacations without incident. We have left appropriate contact information with the two congregations, called to check in, and left e-mail addresses as an additonal measure– everything has gone well.

    It seems that emergencies come about more often to conflict with district conferences and the like… no, really!

    Pax.

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