Week 5: Hours Worked in Ministry

--Trenton Prieshoff

God's House Ministries
Interviewing Pastor Ryan McCarty

Study: 8+
Administative/Office Work: 6
Services: 3.5
People: 10
Working at the Clinic: 25

• As Anton said: there is always more to do. Some weeks meetings will take up all your time, or a crisis will hit and your time will be spent counseling and visiting, and still other times there will be a lot of clerical work to catch up on.
• Because Ryan is "bivocational" he spends a lot of time delegating tasks to others and connecting with them instead of doing them himself. The only reason GHM continues to be successful is because the laity have really taken up their charge and run with it.
• Because Ryan works at the Medical Clinic most of the day, he must be available in other ways. He relies on others to meet with people in small groups and he e-mails and texts frequently to arrange meeting times.