The Shepherd's Circle

Standing with Those Who Serve—Month after month

Ministers spend their lives caring for others. Your monthly partnership helps ensure someone is caring for them.

The Shepherd's Circle

Standing with Those Who Serve—Month after month

Ministers spend their lives caring for others. Your monthly partnership helps ensure someone is caring for them.

The Quiet Weight of Ministry

Most ministers carry more than they let others see. The pressure. The expectations. The quiet exhaustion builds over time.

Many delay asking for help—until it becomes unsustainable. Not because they don't need care. But because they're not sure it's available.

That's the gap your partnership helps fill.

Pastor receiving counseling

When a Minister Reaches Out

When a minister finally reaches out, care cannot be delayed. It must already be there. That's what monthly partners make possible.

Because of your ongoing support:

  • A minister doesn't have to wonder if help exists
  • A spouse doesn't have to carry the weight alone
  • A family doesn't have to wait for care

You help ensure the door is already open.

When a minister finally reaches out, care cannot be delayed. It must already be there. That's what monthly partners make possible.

Because of your ongoing support:

  • A minister doesn't have to wonder if help exists
  • A spouse doesn't have to carry the weight alone
  • A family doesn't have to wait for care

You help ensure the door is already open.

A pastor doesn’t have to wonder if help exists

A spouse doesn’t have to carry the weight alone

A family doesn’t have to wait for care

Why Monthly Partnership Matters

Soul Care isn't a one-time moment. It requires presence over time.

That kind of care is only possible through monthly partners.

Your Support Helps Provide:

Availability

Care when someone is ready to reach out

Consistency

Support beyond a single conversation

Trust

A safe place for honesty, confidentiality, and spiritual care.

Without monthly partners, care becomes uncertain. With you, it becomes steady.

What Your Partnership Makes Possible

Pastor receiving counseling
Pastor receiving counseling

Every month, your partnership allows us:

  • To Respond quickly when a minister reaches out for help
  • To Provide confidential faith-informed counseling for ministers and their families without financial strain
  • To Sustain long-term ministry health rather than short-term crisis response
  • To Offer care before burnout leads to breakdown
  • To Provide crisis care during seasons of ministry recovery

You may never sit in the counseling room, but your presence is there.

In every conversation. In every moment of honesty. In every step toward healing.

Pastor receiving counseling

Compassionate Care for the Called

Every gift matters. What matters most is your faithfulness over time.

Shepherd's

Friend

$25/month

You help ensure that when a minister reaches out, someone is there to respond.

Every act of care begins with someone showing up.

Shepherd's

Partner

$50/month

You help provide ongoing, confidential care for ministers and their families.

This is the most common way people stand with pastors.

Shepherd's

Sustainer

$100/month

You help provide counseling and care during seasons of burnout, crisis, and renewal.

You are helping restore those who are pouring out for others.

Shepherd's

Guardian

$250+/month

You help ensure no minister is turned away because of financial need.

You are protecting access to care for those who need it most.

What matters most is not the size of the gift—but the faithfulness of showing up month after month.

What can I expect during a Pastor Care session?

As a member of The Shepherd's Circle, you are part of a community committed to caring for those who care for the Church.

You Receive:

  • Quarterly updates on the care you make possible
  • Reflections from the front lines of ministry care

  • Prayer updates for ministers and families

Most of all, you’ll know that your faithfulness is strengthening the hands that serve.

  • Quarterly updates on the care you make possible
  • Reflections from the front lines of ministry care

  • Prayer updates for ministers and families

Most of all, you’ll know that your faithfulness is strengthening the hands that serve.

As a member of The Shepherd's Circle, you are part of a community committed to caring for those who care for the Church.

You Receive:

Become a Founding Member

We are inviting a small group of founding members to help establish sustained care for ministers and ministry families.

As a founding member, you help lay the foundation for long-term, confidential pastoral care.

The future of this work is being built by people like you.