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There’s a chance that a lot of readers won’t know who these people are. My first response - who cares? I know who they are and it’s my blog.

Then I started thinking - yeah, you do know who these people - especially if you are minister/pastor type person. At least you ought to. If you don’t - that’s more of an indictment on you than anything else.

These are the people who give up family time and vacations to invest in other people in Jesus’ name. They don’t do it for us, but they love doing it with us. These are the people who see you as a person first, pastor second. These are the people who’d love you if you were a mail carrier, plumber, or trash collector. They’ve been God’s encouragment to you as a pastor. They are the safe haven where you can be authentic and real and they can be the hands and feet of Jesus to you.

And yes - we’ve impacted their life and helped them and ministered to them. But the truth of the matter is they’ve done more for us than we’ll ever be able to communicate or even know.

Gosh, I love what I do.