Healthy Pastors Ministry was developed
to bless churches through healthy pastors.
We do this by offering them our confidential
friendship to help them remain healthy.
How Do We Help?
After all, large problems usually have small beginnings, and it is much better to intercede in the pastor’s life when the issues are still small rather than after it has grown out of proportion and becomes a crisis.
Pastors Need Pastors Too!
Yes, even pastors need the ministry of others to help care for their own souls. Someone they can trust and just talk with confidentially. Pastors face the same type of issues that beset everyone else. God does not protect them from the cares of humanity. Pastors are still human, but many of their people do not accept their humanity. Their expectations of their pastor put a lot of extra pressure on the pastor.
Pastors can be unhealthy in many ways, and often in a combination of ways because one unhealthy issue usually leads to other unhealthy areas. As with all of humanity, pastors can be unhealthy physically, emotionally, spiritually, financially, relationally, mentally, and/or any other area. While people turn to their pastor for help, pastors have no one else to turn to for their own health without jeopardizing their ministry. That is where an HPM Pastor to Pastors can help.
In addition, pastors carry the weight of the church and the struggles of its people on their shoulders and in their hearts. Quite often the struggles in a pastor’s personal life are complicated and intertwined with what is happening in the churches they serve, as Paul confessed in II Corinthians 11:28-29 after listing many of his own sufferings:
Then, besides all this, I have the daily burden of my concern for all the churches. 29 Who is weak without my feeling that weakness? Who is led astray, and I do not burn with anger?
This need for confidential friendship is one of the reasons why Healthy Pastors Ministry (HPM) was started. Its purpose is to minister to hurting pastors by listening to them as a friend, providing insights and suggestions as requested, and encouraging them, all in an effort to help them remain healthy.
A Healthy Pastor Makes A Healthy Church
HPM does not wait for a pastoral crisis to occur. We initiate contact with local pastors to develop a level of friendship. The local pastor sets the agenda for any conversations. We are not there as a mentor, a coach, or a counselor. We have no intentional agenda other than to:
provide a confidential listening ear
be a resource (with insights and suggestions) as requested and appropriate
offer encouragement
We listen. We are passionate about wanting to keep local pastors healthy. When pastors are healthy, they can, in turn, help their people to be healthy.
The more healthy the pastor is, the more healthy the church will be.
The more healthy the church is, the more excited the people are toward it.
The more excited the people are, the more they will want to support the church by serving and giving.
The more the people serve and give, the more
the church grows, and more people are saved
and discipled.
It all starts with a healthy pastor.
When Pastor Bob and Carol came to our church, they loved us, and brought the healing and healththat we so desperately needed. – Indiana Church Leader
Pastor Bob is a spiritual therapist, doing in the spiritual what a physical therapist does in the physical realm. – Pennsylvania Pastor
Dr. Robert S. Hallett has been in the ministry for the past 60 years. During this time, he has served in several distinct ministry areas in many cross-denominational and cross-cultural settings:
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Pulpit Supply & Evangelist
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Pastor (5 churches)
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Church Stewardship & Visioning Consultant
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College Representative
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Ministry Entrepreneur
(started TLC Ministries in 1990) -
Author (3 books on discipleship)
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Interim Pastor (2 churches during COVID)
Dr. Hallett received his D.Min. degree from Liberty University, having also studied at Asbury Theological Seminary (M.Div.), Indiana Wesleyan University (B.A.), and Kingswood University (Ministerial Diploma).
Pastor Bob transitioned from a pastoral ministry to a church consulting ministry in 1985. During the decades of his church consulting ministry since then, he has also been an unofficial pastor to pastors in the hundreds of churches he served as their consultant. It is a natural thing for him to step into the role of being an official Pastor to Pastors.
Dr. Hallett is passionate about creating and caring for healthy pastors, the good they can do to be a blessing to the church, and to help build the kingdom of God on earth.
Pastor Bob is available to share his pastor’s heart with those pastors who would like to talk things over in a confidential manner. This ministry is free to pastors – he is supported by a Shepherding Team who stand by him both financially and prayerfully.
You may also want to check him out at:
www.40Nutshells.com
www.TLCMinistries.com
We Can Help Pastors in Two Ways:
If You're a Pastor who would like to
talk, contact us directly at PastorBob@TheHealthyPastors.org
or call us at (765) 347-8348.
If You're an Individual who would
like to help our efforts to keep our
pastors healthy, donate today at
PayPal.me/HealthyPastors.
