{"id":2869,"date":"2014-05-16T08:29:13","date_gmt":"2014-05-16T13:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.brethren.org\/?p=2869"},"modified":"2014-05-16T08:29:13","modified_gmt":"2014-05-16T13:29:13","slug":"supporting-leaders-emotional-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/2014\/05\/16\/supporting-leaders-emotional-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Supporting Leaders: Emotional Support"},"content":{"rendered":"<ol>\n<li>Send notes, emails and calls of appreciation<\/li>\n<li>Keep an eye out for opportunities to offer random acts of kindness and support to the pastor and other leaders: an impromptu meal delivered, the lawn mowed, car washed, etc.<\/li>\n<li>Provide free childcare for a night out. Go a step further and give them gift cards for dinner and a movie<\/li>\n<li>Evaluate and learn from mistakes; don\u2019t use them to attack one another<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em>The May issue of <\/em><a title=\"Basin and Towel magazine\" href=\"http:\/\/www.brethren.org\/basinandtowel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Basin &amp; Towel magazine<\/a><em> is all about the idea of calling, which includes caring for and sustaining those who have answered their call. How do you support your pastor and other church leaders? What would you add to this list and <a title=\"Supporting Leaders\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blog\/tag\/support-leaders\/\">previous posts<\/a>? <\/em><em><\/em>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Send notes, emails and calls of appreciation Keep an eye out for opportunities to offer random acts of kindness and support to the pastor and other leaders: an impromptu meal delivered, the lawn mowed, car washed, etc. Provide free childcare for a night out. Go a step further and give them gift cards for dinner<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[384,521,708,1123],"class_list":["post-2869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-encourage","tag-grace","tag-love","tag-support-leaders"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}