{"id":124047,"date":"2023-10-24T17:15:35","date_gmt":"2023-10-24T21:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=124047"},"modified":"2023-10-24T18:16:46","modified_gmt":"2023-10-24T22:16:46","slug":"premier-church-leaders-considering-quitting-job-due-to-stress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=124047","title":{"rendered":"(Premier) Church leaders considering quitting job due to stress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One in three church leaders say they want to step down from their roles within the next two years due to job-related stress, according to a new survey by Unite.<\/p>\n<p>The trade union&#8217;s study revealed that 75 per cent of those surveyed regularly work beyond their contracted hours, often facing challenging situations such as providing support to individuals suffering from acute mental illness.<\/p>\n<p>Rev Nicky Skipworth from Unite shared with Premier the challenging nature of the clergy&#8217;s role, emphasising the desire to be there for people in times of need but feeling they often have to rely on family and friends to feel listened to.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/premierchristian.news\/en\/news\/article\/church-leaders-considering-quitting-job-due-to-stress\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Parish vacancies are on the rise and the cause is multi-tiered, might this be a factor?<br \/>Church leaders considering quitting job due to stress &#8211; Premier Christian News | Headlines, Breaking News, Comment &amp; Analysis <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BkesdYa4la\">https:\/\/t.co\/BkesdYa4la<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Simon Moore (@simonqmoore) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/simonqmoore\/status\/1716710808225239211?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 24, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One in three church leaders say they want to step down from their roles within the next two years due to job-related stress, according to a new survey by Unite. The trade union&#8217;s study revealed that 75 per cent of<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=124047\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,184,177,129,604],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-medicine","category-parish-ministry","category-pastoral-theology","category-psychology","category-stress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=124047"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124052,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124047\/revisions\/124052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=124047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=124047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=124047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}