Today as I was scrolling through my social media feeds I came across a post from Pete Greig. It was a longer post but here is the opening paragraph

85% of my time as a pastor (maybe more) is invisible. It’s spent behind the scenes building teams. Not preaching. Not counselling. Not studying. Nothing worth sharing on social media. Not even praying. Most of my waking, working day is spent quietly choreographing the space between people, noticing, listening and over-communicating, preempting problems. I’m aware that this is not the public perception of leadership (Note to self: if my profile pic ever shows me holding a mic what does this say about my values?)

Pete Greig

It was such a helpful post. Was it helpful because it described what my weeks look like? Did it make me feel normal? Did I like it because I hoped it would help others understand what my weeks often look like?

This happens much less today but I used to often get asked what I did between Sundays. The thought being that when a service wasn’t on then what would be doing. People assumed that they would be a little prep of course, but it certainly wouldn’t constitute a full time job.

The reality is a Sunday service is an incredibly small % of my week, the rest is pretty much as Pete describes it. My days are filled with moments that I might not even totally remember by the end of the day. In fact so often I come to the end of my day not having achieved the totality of what I had meant to accomplish…. but the many conversations and interactions I did have will have hopefully helped to move lots of things forward.

Realistically this is a post for me! Thanks for reading (if you made it this far)