Church Visitation records

I'm finding more and more that it's difficult to catch people at home. People don't expect a pastor to visit as they did a generation ago.

 

I had the opportunity to develop a church personel booklet for a church I attended many years ago.
They had not updated or even used one for a few decades and had fallen into some poor business practices, ones that effected their ministry.
I took it upon myself to develop and spell out some expectations.

In the process I was able to get my hands upon the original expectations for the very young pastor who originally took on the ministry from the church planter back in the early 1970s.

They listed that the new pastor would spend an "x" number of hours each week in visitation, something like half of the number of hours he worked.
He would report back to the deacon board who had even visited and for how long.

He was expected to preach on Sunday mornings, teach on Sunday evenings, teach and preach on Wednesday evenings. And he taught Adult Sunday school before church!

The deacon board met each week with him for prayer and to discuss church business.

And he had a growing family.

All that said, I really don't remember ever having been personally visited. I'm sure he must have visited but don't recall.

That young pastor had more energy than I could ever muster. The church grew and expanded up until he left and still has an impact in the community to this day.

Rob

 

I cannot imagine working under that kind of micromanaging. Were the deacons doing visitation themselves? Or were they just micromanaging him?