Dear Editor,
A quick note to thank you for the article on ministry fallout in the August en.
It’s a subject close to our hearts in Living Leadership. The article was apposite, accurate and very helpful, especially the bit about youngsters not being sufficiently briefed. Broadly speaking I think we see longer-term folk dropping out because of exhaustion and discouragement – compounded by isolation and carrying unsustainable burdens – but younger folk dropping out because we have accepted people we shouldn’t and not prepared others well enough, nor surrounded them with the scaffolding of wise counsel. A sufficiently large number are clearly not lasting five years out of college, so we ought to be asking some serious questions.
