Welcome, Pastor Appreciation Champion

Appreciating your pastor is more than an event on the calendar. The focus of this positive, faith based website, is to challenge churches to honor and encourage pastors throughout the year.

Greetings from San Diego, California. While I am called "Chaplain Paul" by the people I minister to as a now retired healthcare chaplain, I consider myself an Internet Chaplain as I promote church health as well as the financial success of pastors.

By focusing on an Appreciation Theme, my desire is to help churches honor pastors by providing resources and ideas to prompt churches to pay tribute to their pastor.

I believe that every church needs someone to champion these efforts, who will take the lead in promoting Appreciation for pastors.

New Resource For Pastor Appreciation Champions!

As a Pastor Appreciation Champion you will receive great ideas on how to honor your pastor. You will also have opportunity to submit pastor appreciation ideas to help other churches honor their pastor.

Appreciation Is An Attitude

As you creatively express gratitude to your pastor, you demonstrate much more than you realize. Expressing gratitude and appreciation is a very practical witness to your community of God's grace and mercy.

After all, griping about your pastor will never convince your community that God is a God of Love, but demonstrating genuine appreciation certainly will.

Your Pastor Appreciation Idea Resource

With poetry for pastors such a popular expression to pay tribute to pastors, you will find pastor poem resources to help you express loving tribute to your pastor.

Appreciation Gift Ideas There are so many ways to honor your pastor but most would agree that giving a unique and special gift expresses a church's gratitude in a very practical and concrete way.

Pastor Appreciation Day Celebration Ideas

You will find ideas on how to honor pastors a successful venture for your church.

To see what other Pastor Appreciation Champions have done, go to Pastor Appreciation Day Celebration Stories

Seeing how others have celebrated their pastor honoring day may just be the creative spark for making your appreciation celebration a success.

Why not tell us about your successful event, doing so as your gift to other churches in need of ideas to honor their pastor?

Your Church Needs To Express Love and Appreciation To Be A Healthy Church

• Biblically, pastor appreciation is a concept throughout the pages of scripture.
• Practically, showing appreciation serves two purposes. First, as already stated, expression of gratitude is a positive witness, showing your community that God is loving and merciful.

  A second practical result of honoring pastors is that it creates an atmosphere that encourages the response to the call of God to the pastoral ministry.

  A positive, healthy church produces those called of God to serve in Christian ministry.

• Ultimately, clergy appreciation by a congregation is an expression of gratitude to God for their pastor. Honoring the pastor reveals more about a congregation than it does about the pastor.

  Your church's expression of gratitude for your pastor and his or her ministry efforts can be one of the most effective demonstrations to your community that your church is indeed a loving church.

May the greatest clergy appreciation gift given by your church be the gift of a healthy church, ready to share God's love not only with your pastor but with your community.