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Good Expectations for Your Pastor’s Sabbatical
Good Expectations for Your Pastor’s Sabbatical Brett McNeill Originally Published in New Horizons June 2024 It’s encouraging over the past few years in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church to see more and more congregations grant sabbaticals to their pastors. The...
Webinar: D.A. Carson on the Ordinary Pastor
https://vimeo.com/907547566 What does it mean to be an “ordinary pastor?” While our day has its share of well-known and gifted ministers, many more serve as faithful ministers who are not widely known as exceptional preachers or leaders. Today’s webinar is an...
Guidelines on Severance Pay for Ministers
Orthodox Presbyterian Church Committee On Ministerial Care (January 2023) Guidelines on Severance Pay for Ministers The time when a minister’s service at a church comes to an end leads to a critical transition for everyone involved. Transitions in a church’s life...
Should Ministers Opt Out of Social Security?
Orthodox Presbyterian Church Committee on Ministerial Care “Should Ministers Opt Out of Social Security?” Ministers of the gospel and other clergy and religious workers are granted a unique opportunity to claim an exemption from self-employment taxes, and thus to...
The Obadiah Fund “Bread for Ministers” by John A. Hartley
This article originally appeared in the July 2023 issue of New Horizons By John A. Hartley Where did Obadiah find all that bread? It is a fair question but certainly not the point of Scripture’s brief yet dense testimony to one man’s faith, love, and courage: “Now...
Investment Management vs. Financial Planning (from our partners at Creative Planning)
Webinar: CMC’s FARE Program Partnering with Blue Trust
https://vimeo.com/691035938 An exciting new program for OPC pastors is explained in this webinar from the Committee on Ministerial Care. In partnership with Ronald Blue Trust, a major Christian financial planning organization, OPC pastors and their wives can work with...
Insurance for Ministers by Bryan D. Holstrum
This article originally appeared in the October 2023 issue of New Horizons by Bryan D. Holstrum In his infinite grace, God has blessed his church with men to serve as ministers of the Word and sacraments, in order that the saints will be built up and “attain to the...
Overcoming Financial Anxiety (from our partners at Creative Planning)
Webinar 19: Prayer and the Pastor – Insights for Ministry
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