We are coming off of our annual pastor's conference here in Minneapolis this February.

It was a really sweet time of interacting with so many men who are faithfully pastoring

small churches.

I mean, some large churches are represented, but most of the pastors pastor pretty ordinarily

sized churches.

And from the perspective of this conference and your interaction with the pastors recently,

Pastor John, I want to turn the tables.

I mean, if you can speak now to the churches, that these men represent, why is it important

for folks in those churches to pray for their pastors?

One of the sweetest times, and really, for me, one of the most tearful moving times during

our conference for pastors recently was we set aside time after the evening service

and just said, we're available, we leaders of the conference are available, and we lined

up across the front of this huge auditorium and said, if you want to go, you can go to a

lingering pray, or you can come up here in Astrid Prayer, and I was there probably praying

for, and they'll have our 45 minutes with us.

And the stories that were told to me of crises in church, leadership, agonizing over the

next steps, on children who are very sick or rebellious, one pastor told me of a daughter

who suffered from migraine headaches for six years now, and she's 14, and she can just

hardly stand the pain.

They've gotten all the help they can from doctors, and nobody can seem to put their finger

on it.

It's another pastor who, his own health was fading so fast, he didn't know if he lived

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