What I Learned from Being a Bi-vocational Pastor

Bi-vocational pastors serve outside the spotlight. Though estimates vary, at Church Answers, we estimate there are around one million part-time pastors and staff in North America. They are many, but they get only a fraction of the attention given to pastors of larger churches. They receive little recognition, but they are the workhorses of churches who do much of the heavy lifting.

I served as a bi-vocational pastor of a tiny church in central Kentucky. We started with six people. It was my firs...