{"id":1485,"date":"2012-07-10T15:14:48","date_gmt":"2012-07-10T19:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nd.edu\/thecc\/?p=1485"},"modified":"2012-07-10T15:14:48","modified_gmt":"2012-07-10T19:14:48","slug":"question-ministry-burn-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/thecc\/2012\/07\/10\/question-ministry-burn-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Question:  Ministry &#8220;burn out&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.nd.edu\/thecc\/files\/2012\/07\/ministry_burnout.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1487\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.nd.edu\/thecc\/files\/2012\/07\/ministry_burnout-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/thecc\/files\/2012\/07\/ministry_burnout-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/thecc\/files\/2012\/07\/ministry_burnout.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>Today, I was speaking with an FJV (Former Jesuit Volunteer) who volunteered with me in the Midwest province back in 2003-04. \u00a0He&#8217;s in town for <a href=\"http:\/\/vision.nd.edu\/Welcome_to_Notre_Dame_Vision\/Home.html\">ND Vision<\/a> as a youth minister and is serving at a thriving parish\u00a0in Ohio. \u00a0We talked about many things, but one item that came up was the issue of &#8220;burn out&#8221; in youth ministry. \u00a0In his eighth or ninth year of youth ministry now, he suggested that the average tenure of youth ministers is something closer to 2 years and that in order to keep going he had been forced to learn how to get past being &#8220;burned out.&#8221; \u00a0This made me wonder, is there any good research on burn out among youth ministers? \u00a0I know there&#8217;s research on clergy burn out, but have not heard of anything that examined youth ministers.<\/p>\n<p>So, I am asking here on The Catholic Conversation&#8211;do you know of any good research on burn out in youth ministry (or ministry generally)? \u00a0Even beyond research, are there any good practical books about dealing with burn out in youth ministry?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, I was speaking with an FJV (Former Jesuit Volunteer) who volunteered with me in the Midwest province back in 2003-04. \u00a0He&#8217;s in town for ND Vision as a youth minister and is serving at a thriving parish\u00a0in Ohio. \u00a0We &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/thecc\/2012\/07\/10\/question-ministry-burn-out\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":411,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/thecc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/thecc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/thecc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/thecc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/411"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/thecc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1485"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/thecc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1492,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/thecc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1485\/revisions\/1492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/thecc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/thecc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/thecc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}