Pastors everywhere needed this binding and healing. So World Vision picked church leaders from all over the world and used the richness of their heritage to aid and heal pastors in many locations. It was a multinational, multilingual, multiethnic, and multiracial team. When World Vision asked me to begin leading these conferences 20 years ago, we expanded them to Eastern Europe and many Islamic countries. We've worked with monks and priests, we've been to monasteries and seminaries, and we've worked with both women and men.
Pastors are very neglected, tired, and lonely people.
Our conferences build them up three ways. First, we provide recreation and good quarters, a place where they can just go out and play soccer if they want to, or enjoy a beautiful environment. Second, we offer them refresher courses. Third, we provide spiritual renewal so they'll work with a new focus, a new goal, and a new vision. No one else is doing this kind of ministry for pastors on the same scale and consistency that we do.