{"id":58287,"date":"2019-10-02T14:48:37","date_gmt":"2019-10-02T20:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mesonaz.org\/?p=58287"},"modified":"2019-10-02T15:25:30","modified_gmt":"2019-10-02T21:25:30","slug":"celebrate-clergy-appreciation-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mesonaz.org\/en\/celebrate-clergy-appreciation-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrate Clergy Appreciation month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The month of October is clergy appreciation month. Churches worldwide will show their appreciation for clergy and pastoral staff members through a gift, a note of encouragement, or other method.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some ideas to show\u00a0your pastors and clergy members your\u00a0appreciation:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Organize a prayer calendar so each pastor is prayed for every day of the month.<\/li>\n<li>Create a slideshow presentation of pastors and clergy\u00a0in action during the past year. Set it to music and play as a pre-service video.<\/li>\n<li>Find volunteers to call or text members of your pastoral staff and clergy members in your congregation\u00a0a message of encouragement and gratitude for how he or she has impacted your life and your community.<\/li>\n<li>Invite them over for a home cooked meal.<\/li>\n<li>Send your pastor to a conference or a retreat.<\/li>\n<li>Throw them a \u201cgift card\u201d shower.<\/li>\n<li>Give celrgy\u00a0families a night out to a local restaurant or gift certificate for an overnight get-away.<\/li>\n<li>Invite children to make artwork for clergy in their church.<\/li>\n<li>Allow members of the congregation to volunteer time serving pastoral leaders by babysitting or helping with yard projects and other home maintenance.<\/li>\n<li>Update their\u00a0office with new paint, d\u00e9cor, or even a technology upgrade.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>On behalf of the Church of the Nazarene\u2019s Global Ministry Center, thank you to pastors and all clergy for their labor and leadership in helping to make Christlike disciples in the nations.<\/p>\n<p>From: nazarene.org\/news<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The month of October is clergy appreciation month. Churches worldwide will show their appreciation for clergy and pastoral staff members through a gift, a note of encouragement, or other method. Here are some ideas to show\u00a0your pastors and clergy members your\u00a0appreciation: Organize a prayer calendar so each pastor is prayed for every day of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mesonaz.org\/en\/celebrate-clergy-appreciation-month\/\"> <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":58288,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1522,243,2127,260,1575],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-caribbean-field","category-central-fields","category-mexico","category-news","category-norcentral-fields"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mesonaz.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mesonaz.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mesonaz.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mesonaz.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mesonaz.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mesonaz.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mesonaz.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mesonaz.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mesonaz.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mesonaz.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}