Throughout our more than two decades in vocational ministry, we've witnessed a wide range of experiences— from the uplifting to the challenging. We've walked with friends in ministry as they have navigated the turmoil of failing marriages, battled burnout, faced health crises, and grappled with doubts about their calling. We've experienced internal conflicts among staff and tensions with congregants. We have witnessed the arduous journey of rebuilding fractured trust over many years.

  

Ministry, despite its constant engagement with people, can often feel isolating. Finding genuine transparency and vulnerability among peers is a rare gift. From this struggle (which we understand firsthand), God has birthed in us a calling to be a source of encouragement and pastoral care for fellow ministry leaders. Over the years, God has given us a dream of providing a place, exactly like The Hiding Place, where we might commit ourselves fully to loving and serving ministers with excellence while they reconnected with God and their spouse.  

 

We want to be a part of something that is bigger than ourselves, and we want to do something that will leave a legacy well beyond our years.  Our prayer for The Hiding Place is that we can mentor those who may come behind us, pour into ministers who are hurting, and place tools in the hands of new ministers to help them avoid or prepare for difficulties that will come.